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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-249-2022
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Abrupt climate changes and the astronomical theory: are they related?
Denis-Didier Rousseau
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Geosciences Montpellier, University Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier,
France
Institute of Physics-CSE, Division of Geochronology and Environmental Isotopes, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA
Witold Bagniewski
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure and PSL University, Paris, France
Michael Ghil
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure and PSL University, Paris, France
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of
California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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Short summary
The study of abrupt climate changes is a relatively new field of research that addresses paleoclimate variations that occur in intervals of tens to hundreds of years. Such timescales are much shorter than the tens to hundreds of thousands of years that the astronomical theory of climate addresses. We revisit several high-resolution proxy records of the past 3.2 Myr and show that the abrupt climate changes are nevertheless affected by the orbitally induced insolation changes.
The study of abrupt climate changes is a relatively new field of research that addresses...
