Sentences with phrase «series of glacial periods»

It is very unlikely that the Milankovitch cycles can start or end an ice age (series of glacial periods):

Not exact matches

During the history of Earth, there have been a series of periods in which a significant portion of the hydrosphere was locked up in the form of glacial ice.

It's the same series of an initial forcing (change in insolation due to Milankovitch orbital cycles) being amplified by reinforcing feedbacks (change in albedo, change in temperature and partial pressure regulating both CO2 and H2O), but in reverse from an exit from a glacial period.

-- Hewitt et al., 2016 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016EGUGA..18.8388H «Many northern hemisphere climate records, particularly those from around the North Atlantic, show a series of rapid climate changes that recurred on centennial to millennial timescales throughout most of the last glacial period.

Gerald Bond found evidence of cosmogenic isotope changes at each of a long series of warming followed by cooling events (he has able to track 25 events through current interglacial Holocene and into the last glacial period, at which point he reached the limit of the range of the proxy analysis technique) which indicates a solar magnetic cycle change caused the warming followed by cooling cycle.