Mapping orbital effects on climate
This article summarizes some of the recent research described at the Second International Conference on Paleoceanography, 6-13 September 1986, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The article highlights research of the spectral mapping (SPECMAP) group that has been isolating the climate effects of each of the three Milankovitch cycles from the jumble of climate changes recorded in marine sediments. The two new directions reported were (1) greater use of climate indictors, such as strength of monsoon winds over the ocean and amount of monsoon rain over land, and (2) extension of analyses to a global scale, including preliminary results from 22 deep-sea sediment cores scattered somewhat unevenly about the world's oceans.
- OSTI ID:
- 6827505
- Journal Information:
- Science (Washington, D.C.); (United States), Vol. 234, Issue 4774
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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