Changes
in obliquity modulate seasonal contrasts as well as annual mean insolation changes with opposite effects at low vs. high latitudes (and therefore no effect on global average insolation)-LCB- 6.4 -RCB-.
Now the glacial cold lurking in the deep ocean, held in check by
obliquity for 10,000 years, has been set free, ending the Holocene Interglacial.
I would hazard a guess that during periods of
high obliquity that ozone holes have naturally developed.
Powering Triton's recent geological activity
by obliquity tides: Implications for Pluto geology.
What asteroseismology can do for exoplanets: Kepler - 410A b is a Small Neptune around a bright star, in an eccentric orbit consistent with low obliquity
I have claimed the Holocene ended in 1300ad, the start of the LIA sequence,
when obliquity fell past 23.5 deg.
Individual discrepancies have been explained, for example, through interactions between other orbital frequencies such
as obliquity and the 413,000 - year period of eccentricity but a unified explanation is lacking.
Ekholm also discusses the
orbital obliquity cycle and its influence, presenting some interesting calculations a la his buddy Arrhenius, but he sees it as secondary to CO2 / temperature feedbacks.
The acceleration caused by the jets is so small — about a millionth of a metre per second squared — that the star would have to move in the same direction for a million years to
create obliquity.
The paper looks at the basic rules governing planetary ice extent on Earth - like exoplanets at
different obliquities.
During the past several million years, astronomical cycles are dominated by 405 kyr, 125 kyr, and 95 kyr eccentricity cycles, 40.9
kyr obliquity cycles, and 23.6 kyr, 22.3 kyr, and 19.1 kyr precession cycles19, 49.
Many scientists propose that
decreasing obliquity, or Earth's tilt, is responsible for initiating the cooling tipping point.
Glacial variability over the last two million years: an extended depth - derived age model, continuous
obliquity pacing, and the Pleistocene progression.
We can see it plainly in a Fourier periodogram of earth's
obliquity over the last 5 million years:
Flip the model upside down for the case where
obliquity exceeds 55º and the annual - average insolation gradient is reversed
We use a one - dimensional energy balance climate model (EBM) to examine
how obliquity, spin rate, orbital eccentricity, and ocean coverage might influence the onset of such a snowball state.
Paleonthology will probably also construct that the Earth's
obliquity etc re Milankovic, was more in optimum for insolation.
All this is justified with sophistry about supposedly hard - headed political reality and woolly notions
about obliquity.
This mechanism may be extended to deep time with no ice sheets and to the long - period
obliquity modulations.
For example, in the Upper Carboniferous (~ 300 million years ago), the ~ 41,000
yr obliquity cycle would have taken about 33,000 years (see e.g., here)