Milankovitch and Climate: Understanding the Response to Astronomical Forcing

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 511-511
An Evaluation of Ocean-Climate Theories on the North Atlantic....Pages 671-686
Terminations....Pages 687-698
Models for Reconstructing Temperature and Ice Volume from Oxygen Isotope Data....Pages 699-705
Insolation Gradients and the Paleoclimatic Record....Pages 707-713
Summer Temperature Variations in the Arctic during Interglacials....Pages 715-720
Changes in Decadally Averaged Sea Surface Temperature over the World 1861–1980....Pages 721-727
Sea-Level Fluctuations as Evidence of the Milankovitch Cycles and of the Planetary-Solar Modulation of Climate....Pages 729-729
A Sensitivity Experiment to Astronomical Forcing with a Spectral GCM: Simulation of the Annual Cycle at 125 000 BP and 115 000 BP....Pages 733-763
A Two-Dimensional Climate Model Useful in Ice Age Applications....Pages 513-518
A Simple Seasonal Climate Model and Its Response to Variations in the Orbital Parameters....Pages 519-525
Preliminary Results on the Simulation of Climate during the Last Deglaciation with a Thermodynamic Model....Pages 527-537
Some Ice-Age Aspects of a Calving Ice-Sheet Model....Pages 541-564
A Model of the Ice Age Cycle....Pages 565-580
Sensitivities of Cryospheric Models to Insolation and Temperature Variations Using a Surface Energy Balance....Pages 581-597
A Possible Explanation of Differences Between Pre- and Post-Jaramillo Ice Sheet Growth....Pages 599-604
On Long Period Internal Oscillations in a Simple Ice Sheet Model....Pages 605-606
On the Origin of the Ice Ages....Pages 607-611
Earth-Orbital Eccentricity Variations and Climatic Change....Pages 615-636
Self-Oscillations, External Forcings, and Climate Predictability....Pages 637-652
Sensitivity of Internally-Generated Climate Oscillations to Ocean Model Formulation....Pages 653-667
Front Matter....Pages 511-511
The Response of a Climate Model to Orbital Variations....Pages 765-788
Influence of the Climap Ice Sheet on the Climate of a General Circulation Model : Implications for the Milankovitch Theory....Pages 789-799
The Sensitivity of Monsoon Climates to Orbital Parameter Changes for 9 000 Years BP : Experiments with the NCAR General Circulation Model....Pages 801-820
Front Matter....Pages 821-821
Summary, Conclusions and Recommendations....Pages 823-873
Back Matter....Pages 875-895