A paleoclimate model of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets

Auteurs :
BIRCHFIELD, G. E.
WEERTMAN, J.
LUNDE, A. T.

Description :
A model for predicting the growth and decay of ice sheets based on the astronomical theory of climate change is presented. The purpose of the study in part is to isolate the role of the ice-sheet physics and earth response under varying ice load by simplifying to the extreme the role of the hydrosphere-atmosphere... The model prediction lends support to the hypothesis that the nonlinearity of the ice-sheet physics is responsible for the 100,000-yr periodicity in the geological record of the late Pleistocene.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Quaternary research New York, 1981, vol. 15, n°. 2, p. 126-142, Références bibliographiques : 33réf.

Date :
1981