Sentences with phrase «subtle changes in the sun»

«Since irradiance variations are apparently minimal, changes in the Earth's climate that seem to be associated with changes in the level of solar activity — the Maunder Minimum and the Little Ice age for example — would then seem to be due to terrestrial responses to more subtle changes in the Sun's spectrum of radiative output.

Not exact matches

The scientists worked backward, analyzing subtle changes in Mercury's motion as a way of learning about the Sun and how its physical parameters influence the planet's orbit.

A periodic variation in the number of solar neutrinos detected on Earth may hold information about subtle changes in temperature at the very centre of the Sun.

For example, the ice age — interglacial cycles that we have been locked in for the past few million years seem to be triggered by subtle changes in the earth's orbit around the sun and in its axis of rotation (the Milankovitch cycles) that then cause ice sheets to slowly build up (or melt away)... which changes the albedo (reflectance) of the earth amplifying this effect.

Climate has changed when the planet received more or less sunlight due to subtle shifts in its orbit, as the atmosphere or surface changed, or when the Sun's energy varied.

In the 1970s, the first comprehensive analysis of oxygen isotopes in sediments from cores taken from the sea floor established for the first time that the timing of the Ice Ages was linked to subtle changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun as suggested long ago by Serbian mathematician Milutin MilankovitcIn the 1970s, the first comprehensive analysis of oxygen isotopes in sediments from cores taken from the sea floor established for the first time that the timing of the Ice Ages was linked to subtle changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun as suggested long ago by Serbian mathematician Milutin Milankovitcin sediments from cores taken from the sea floor established for the first time that the timing of the Ice Ages was linked to subtle changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun as suggested long ago by Serbian mathematician Milutin Milankovitcin the Earth's orbit around the Sun as suggested long ago by Serbian mathematician Milutin Milankovitch.