期刊
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 42, 期 6, 页码 1871-1879出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063322
关键词
Pleistocene; sea ice; orbit; ice sheet; isotopes; vegetation
资金
- NSF [OCE-0902258]
Milankovitch theory proposes that the magnitude of high-latitude summer insolation dictates the continental ice-volume response by controlling summer snow melt, thus anticipating a substantial ice-volume contribution from the strong summer insolation signal of precession. Yet almost all of the early Pleistocene O-18 records' signal strength resides at the frequency of obliquity. Here we explore this discrepancy using a climate-vegetation-ice sheet model to simulate climate-ice sheet response to transient orbits of varying obliquity and precession. Spectral analysis of our results shows that despite contributing significantly less to the summer insolation signal, almost 60% of the ice-volume power exists at the frequency of obliquity due to a combination of albedo feedbacks, seasonal offsets, and orbital cycle duration differences. Including eccentricity modulation of the precession ice-volume component and assuming a small Antarctic ice response to orbital forcing produce a signal that agrees with the O-18 ice-volume proxy records.
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