Sentences with phrase «present interglacial period»

One sees clear indications of long - term changes discussed above, with CO ² and proxy temperature changes associated with the last ice age and its transition into our present interglacial period of warmth.

In the 10,000 years of the present interglacial period between ice ages, the temperature has been warmer than today about two - thirds of the time.

In view of the cooling reported in the Arctic since the 1940s, they suspected we might right now be near the end of the present interglacial period.

-- Based on cosmic ray variations, one can interpret that during the present interglacial period, Holocene, GST and SST changes follow activity changes of Sun.

Unless I'm missing something obvious, I don't see how one can extrapolate or estimate current climate sensitivity from the amount of temperature change to the solar forcing change that ocurred from last glaciation to the present interglacial period.

Their findings reveal that dung beetles were much more frequent in the previous interglacial period (from 132,000 to 110,000 years ago) compared with the early Holocene (the present interglacial period, before agriculture, from 10,000 to 5,000 years ago).

Not exact matches

These remains confirm that the deposits date to a warm period of climate around 420,000 years ago, the so - called Hoxnian interglacial, when the climate was probably slightly warmer than the present day.

Here we present the first dated terrestrial record from southeast Arabia that provides evidence for increased rainfall and the expansion of vegetation during both glacial and interglacial periods.

In turn, this could indicate that the carbonate ion concentration of the (western) Pacific at depths shallower than the sill to the SCS (ca. 2,400 m) has not changed appreciably between the last glacial period and the present interglacial.

My understanding is that Greenland's ice cover during the last interglacial period was a lot less than at present.

The present interglacial occurs during a period of low orbital eccentricity, and consequently the scale of the orbital forcing is lower now than during the last several interglacials.

The last two abrupt warmings at the onset of our present warm interglacial period, interrupted by the Younger Dryas cooling event, are investigated in high temporal resolution from the Greenland NGRIP ice core.

During this period, global temperatures were 1.5 - 2.0 °C warmer than the peak warmth of the present interglacial, or Holocene, in which we are now living.

There is very high confidence that maximum global mean sea level during the last interglacial period (~ 129 to 116 ka) was, for several thousand years, at least 5 m higher than present and high confidence that it did not exceed 10 m above present, implying substantial contributions from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.

Temperature trends during the Present and Last Interglacial periods - a multi-model-data comparison.

«We have analyzed the transition from the last glacial period until our present warm interglacial period, and the climate shifts are happening suddenly, as if someone had pushed a button,» said Dahl - Jenson.

we're freezing our tukuses off worrying about global warming???? thank GOD we're in an interglacial period at present.

Pelejero et al (2003) present a proxy derived record of sea surface temperatures to the west of New Zealand that covers the Last Interglacial period.

Cooling of Earth began about 50 million years ago and, with fluctuations of varying amounts, has continued inexorably to the present interglacial climatic period.

Coming closer to the present we have learned from Antarctic ice cores that for the past 800,000 years there have been regular periods of major glaciation followed by interglacial periods in 100,000 year - cycles.

shows the last interglacial sea level which rises to a peak about 9 meters higher than present early in the interglacial, then over a period of thousands of years falls to a bit below modern level, then over the next few thousand years rises 9 meters above modern level again.

Our estimated sea levels have reached +5 to 10 m above the present sea level during recent interglacial periods that were barely warmer than the Holocene, whereas the ice sheet model yields maxima at most approximately 1 m above the current sea level.

During the Last Interglacial Period (about 129,000 to 116,000 years ago) when peak global warmth was not more than 2 °C above pre-industrial temperatures, and peak global annual sea surface temperatures were 0.7 [0.1 to 1.3] °C warmer (medium confidence), maximum GMSL was at least 5 m higher than at present (very high confidence), but did not exceed 10 m (high confidence).