Rate of solar insolation change and the glacial/interglacial transition

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Ji, Junfeng ^a   Balsam, William ^b   Chen, Xing ^a   Chen, Jun ^a   Chen, Yang ^a   Wang, Hongtao ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION METHODS; EARTH (PLANET); GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORBITS; SOLAR HEATING;

CLIMATE CHANGE RATE; EARTH ORBITAL PARAMETERS; INTERGLACIAL CLIMATE; SOLAR HEATING CHANGES; SOLAR INSOLATION CHANGE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATE; SOLAR CYCLE;

EID: 33645649232     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025401     Document Type: Article

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