Links between annual, Milankovitch and continuum temperature variability

Peter Huybers () and William Curry
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Peter Huybers: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
William Curry: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Nature, 2006, vol. 441, issue 7091, 329-332

Abstract: The long view of temperature The factors that influence Earth's temperature variability on the interannual scale are fairly well understood, but the same cannot be said of the controls on temperature variability at timescales of decades to millennia. Except for a few modes of climatic variability, these are usually described as random processes. Peter Huybers and William Curry add order to the proceedings by showing that temperature variability is linked across all timescales. There is a simple power-law relationship between surface temperature and the annual and Milankovitch period (23,000 and 41,000-year) cycles with intermediate timescales, driven by variation in solar radiation. This finding provides a framework by which to understand Earth's temperature variability, and to improve climate predictions at interannual and longer timescales.

Date: 2006
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