A comparison of competing explanations for the 100,000-yr ice age cycle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 2259-2262

  Roe, Gerard H ^a   Allen, Myles R ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

GLOBAL ICE VOLUME; ICE AGES; PLEISTOCENE;

CLIMATOLOGY; ICE;

CYCLICITY; GLACIATION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

GLOBAL ICE VOLUME; ICE AGE; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MODEL APPROACH; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; TIME-RATE;

EID: 0033431767     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900509     Document Type: Article

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