Articles | Volume 18, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-863-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-863-2022
Review article
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21 Apr 2022
Review article |  | 21 Apr 2022

Orbital insolation variations, intrinsic climate variability, and Quaternary glaciations

Keno Riechers, Takahito Mitsui, Niklas Boers, and Michael Ghil

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Building upon Milancovic's theory of orbital forcing, this paper reviews the interplay between intrinsic variability and external forcing in the emergence of glacial interglacial cycles. It provides the reader with historical background information and with basic theoretical concepts used in recent paleoclimate research. Moreover, it presents new results which confirm the reduced stability of glacial-cycle dynamics after the mid-Pleistocene transition.