Complex Climate Response to Astronomical Forcing: The Middle-Pleistocene Transition in Glacial Cycles and Changes in Frequency Locking

Through the past few million years large ice sheets have repeatedly grown and disappeared on the Northern hemisphere. These are the Pleistocene glaciations. They are related to the changing solar heating of the Earth due to changes in Earth's orbit and axis of rotation. The climate response to...

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Main Authors: Peter D. Ditlevsen, Peter Ashwin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Physics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphy.2018.00062/full