Computer Science
Scientific paper
Jan 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004eostr..85....1r&link_type=abstract
EOS Transactions, AGU, Volume 85, Issue 1, p. 1-6
Computer Science
2
Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Paleoclimatology, Oceanography: General: Paleoceanography
Scientific paper
A decade ago, the Spectral Analysis, Mapping and Prediction Project (SPECMAP) analyzed the relationship between changes in Earth's orbit produced by variations in obliquity, precession, and eccentricity, and all available long-term responses observed within the climate system [Imbrie et al., 1992, 1993].In the intervening decade, improvements to the gas time scale for the Vostok ice core from Antarctica have provided age constraints on greenhouse gas changes that are comparable to those for climatic responses based on marine d18O signals these prompted a new investigation of the orbital-scale climatic changes. Milutin Milankovitch proposed that variations in northern hemisphere summer radiation at the 22,000-yr precession cycle and 41,000-yr obliquity cycle drive northern ice sheets by summer ablation control of ice mass balance, and he inferred that ice sheet responses should lag 5000 years behind summer radiation forcing. In confirmation of Milankovitch's hypothesis, Hays et al. [1976] found that coherent changes in d18O lag several thousand years behind the forcing at those two orbital cycles. Imbrie et al. [1984] determined that d18O lags of 5000 yr behind precession and 8000 yr behind obliquity simultaneously satisfied a 17,000-yr time constant of ice response (Figure 1a). These studies also detected a dominant d18O response at 100,000 yr that Milankovitch had not anticipated because direct solar forcing at that period is negligible. Because the 100,000-yr d18O signal is phased with orbital eccentricity, Hays et al. [1976] called it a ``paced'' response but left its origin unresolved.
No associations
LandOfFree
The Role of Greenhouse Gases in Orbital-Scale Climatic Changes does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.
If you have personal experience with The Role of Greenhouse Gases in Orbital-Scale Climatic Changes, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and The Role of Greenhouse Gases in Orbital-Scale Climatic Changes will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1549853