Sentences with phrase «orbital configuration»

This slow decline in the 10 kyr after the initial peak is in contrast to the slowly increasing CO2 levels in the Holocene and the even slower increase in MIS 11, despite the similar orbital configuration of these three periods.

With a significantly different orbital configuration over the coming centuries it can not be expected that the behaviour of the NAO and AMOC would be similar to that during the Last Interglacial.

In fact, the similarity in the orbits found for Sedna, 2012 VP113 and a few other objects near the edge of the Kuiper belt suggests that an unknown massive perturbing body may be shepherding these objects into these similar orbital configurations.

So, I tend to believe the new results, they confirm what has been shown by several other studies — human - caused CO2 has a large enough effect lasting long enough that it will greatly affect the natural ice - age cycling — but I'll listen to Peter, Andre and the others with great interest, and I don't think this is the last word on exactly what CO2 level is needed for exactly what orbital configuration for ice - age initiation.

Here we analyse this unique dataset to determine absolute physical parameters (most importantly the masses and radii) and full orbital configuration using a sophisticated novel approach.

A nearly edge - on orbital configuration helped it evade detection, placing it deep within the glare of the icy dwarf during a substantial fraction of its orbit.

The Arctic took another 3,000 - 4,000 years to warm this much, primarily because of the fact that the Northern Hemisphere had huge ice sheets to buffer warming, and the fact that changes in ocean currents and Earth's orbital configuration accelerated warming in the south.

«As we move forward and continue shaping the future of magnetospheric physics, the global picture of substorms and other important phenomena will become clearer as more spacecraft are deployed using innovative orbital configurations and instrumentation.»

Again, the glowing Sun, Moon and Earth have formed a conjunctive orbital configuration.

Palaeoclimate studies show that differences in the manner in which the Earth orbited the Sun during the Last Interglacial are sufficient to explain the higher temperatures over most parts of the Northern Hemisphere, particularly due to greater axial tilt and eccentricity compared with the present day orbital configuration.

Scientists, who long thought Phobos and Deimos were asteroids swept up by Mars's gravitational pull, could never explain just how their orbital configurations came to be.

Primary driver for long scale climate change is orbital configuration.

Test simulations of the orbits of the three planets around 61 Virginis suggest that the planetary system's orbital configuration is dynamically stable because of low orbital eccentricities for at least 365 million years.

Such discoveries can allow us to determine the orbital configuration of the planetary system, among other things.

Most of that seems to have warmed up by around 11,000 years ago, at which point temperatures in the mid to high latitude Northern Hemisphere were actually warmer (because of the orbital configuration).

How exactly do they know what the orbital configuration was like 120K years ago?

However, they do argue that the reconstruction reflects long - term changes in «orbital configurations» that have continually reduced Northern Hemisphere summer «insolation» (solar irradiance) over the past two millennia.

The main reason for this warmer climate was an increased amount of energy from the Sun being received at high northern latitudes due to Earth's orbital configuration, plus Earth had an increased capacity to absorb heat due to vegetation changes and reduced ice and snow cover.

This is due to the orbital configuration, tectonic disposition, ice and cloud albedo, oceanic - atmosphere response and biological feedback.

This orbital configuration is posited to initiate an ice age (Warm winters which increases snow fall and cold summers which enables there to be a gradual build - up snow.)