Sentences with phrase «orbital change far»

Glacial periods during the 100,000 - year cycles have been characterised by a very slow build - up of ice which took thousands of years, the result of ice volume responding to orbital change far more slowly than the ocean temperatures reacted.

Not exact matches

«We know that the only thing changing in the Northern Hemisphere [20,000 years ago] were these orbital changes» that affect the amount of sunlight striking the far north, explains geologist Peter Clark of Oregon State University, who guided Shakun's research.

The National Research Council of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has embraced the Milankovitch Cycle model... orbital variations remain the most thoroughly examined mechanism of climatic change on time scales of tens of thousands of years and are by far the clearest c...

The orbital changes that caused the ice ages are far too weak and slow to cause a warming as rapid as the current one.

Over several centuries, it may be possible to observe the effect of these orbital parameters, however for the prediction of climate change in the 21st century, these changes will be far less important than radiative forcing from greenhouse gases.»