Sentences with phrase «influencing glacial cycles»

There is good evidence and physical grounds for CO2 and orbital variations influencing glacial cycles, but that by no means shows that they completely control the glacial system.

The combination of insolation at high latitude, solar irradiance, cloud cover, and carbon dixoide concentrations all combine to influence glacial cycles.

Not exact matches

(Top left) Global annual mean radiative influences (W m — 2) of LGM climate change agents, generally feedbacks in glacial - interglacial cycles, but also specified in most Atmosphere - Ocean General Circulation Model (AOGCM) simulations for the LGM.

Further reading on Milankovic cycles and their influence on our climate has not convinced me that the next glacial must be 20 - 50 Ky away.

The following is a link to Bond's paper «Persistent Solar influence on the North Atlantic Climate during the Holocene» Bond track 22 cycles through the Holocene interglacial and into the Wisconsin glacial period.

Together with the long - term decrease of 15 p.p.m.v. during the past four glacial cycles, we suggest significant slow fluctuations in the atmospheric CO2 concentration on timescales of several 105 years, probably influenced by changes in the weathering14 or by major reorganizations in the carbon reservoir of the global ocean15.

The aim of the C - SIDE working group is to reconstruct changes in sea - ice extent in the Southern Ocean for the past 130,000 years, reconstruct how sea - ice cover responded to global cooling as the Earth entered a glacial cycle, and to better understand how sea - ice cover may have influenced nutrient cycling, ocean productivity, air - sea gas exchange, and circulation dynamics.

Influence of high - latitude vegetation feedbacks on late Palaeozoic glacial cycles.

Such as another fascinating paper by Don J. Easterbrook, Professor Emeritus in the Deptment of Geology at Western Washington University: «Solar Influence on Recurring Global, Decadal, Climate Cycles Recorded by Glacial Fluctuations, Ice Cores, Sea Surface Temperatures, and Historic Measurements Over the Past Millennium» — Hat tip to Anthony Watt's Watts Up with That.

At their most basic level, glacial cycles are caused by gravity: the gravity of other planets in the solar system, which influence Earth's orbit around the Sun.

Look for the articles on the MWP, Holocene climatic optimum, Greenland, glacial cycles, solar influences, «100 years is not enough» and «climate is always changing».