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Articles | Volume 22, issue 3
Articles | Volume 22, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-625-2026
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-625-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 22, issue 3
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20 Mar 2026
Research article |  | 20 Mar 2026

Exploring the Mid-Pleistocene transition with a simple physical model

Sergio Pérez-Montero, Jorge Alvarez-Solas, Jan Swierczek-Jereczek, Daniel Moreno-Parada, Alexander Robinson, and Marisa Montoya

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Almost 3 million years ago, the planet began to experience a succession of cold and warm periods every 40,000 years. However, about 1 million years ago, they began to occur every 100,000 years. In this paper we explore how the change in the basal velocity of the ice sheets could have produced this change in behavior. On the other hand, we also see that in our model, decreasing in time the sensitivity of snowfall to temperature is also an effective mechanism with which to reproduce the records.
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