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Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-493-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-493-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
Research article
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21 Mar 2019
Research article |  | 21 Mar 2019

An energy balance model for paleoclimate transitions

Brady Dortmans, William F. Langford, and Allan R. Willms

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In geology and in paleoclimate science, most changes are caused by well-understood forces acting slowly over long periods of time. However, in highly nonlinear physical systems, mathematical bifurcation theory predicts that small changes in forcing can cause major changes in the system in a short period of time. This paper explores some sudden changes in the paleoclimate history of the Earth, where it appears that bifurcation theory gives a more satisfying explanation than uniformitarianism.
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