The Carbon Cycle as the Main Determinant of Glacial-Interglacial Transitions
An intriguing problem in climate science is the existence of Earth's glacial cycles. We show that it is possible to generate these periodic changes in climate by means of the Earth's carbon cycle as the main determinant factor. The carbon exchange between the Ocean, the Continent and the A...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.1308.2709 2023-05-15T16:39:09+02:00 The Carbon Cycle as the Main Determinant of Glacial-Interglacial Transitions de la Cuesta, Diego Jiménez Garduño, René Núñez, Darío Rumbos, Beatriz Vergara-Cervantes, Carlos 2013 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1308.2709 https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.2709 unknown arXiv arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ Geophysics physics.geo-ph Earth and Planetary Astrophysics astro-ph.EP Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics physics.ao-ph FOS Physical sciences Preprint Article article CreativeWork 2013 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1308.2709 2022-04-01T13:18:32Z An intriguing problem in climate science is the existence of Earth's glacial cycles. We show that it is possible to generate these periodic changes in climate by means of the Earth's carbon cycle as the main determinant factor. The carbon exchange between the Ocean, the Continent and the Atmosphere is modeled by means of a tridimensional Lotka-Volterra system and the resulting atmospheric carbon cycle is used as the unique radiative forcing mechanism. It is shown that the carbon dioxide (CO$_{2}$) and temperature anomaly curves, which are thus obtained, have the same first-order structure as the 100 kyr glacial--interglacial cycles depicted by the Vostok ice core data, reproducing the asymmetries of rapid heating--slow cooling, and short interglacial--long glacial ages. : 15 pages, 4 figures. Source file processed with PDFLaTeX. Class used: svjour3. This new version delves deep into mathematical and physical aspects of the model presented. It is a replacement for arXiv:1308.2709 Report ice core DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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An intriguing problem in climate science is the existence of Earth's glacial cycles. We show that it is possible to generate these periodic changes in climate by means of the Earth's carbon cycle as the main determinant factor. The carbon exchange between the Ocean, the Continent and the Atmosphere is modeled by means of a tridimensional Lotka-Volterra system and the resulting atmospheric carbon cycle is used as the unique radiative forcing mechanism. It is shown that the carbon dioxide (CO$_{2}$) and temperature anomaly curves, which are thus obtained, have the same first-order structure as the 100 kyr glacial--interglacial cycles depicted by the Vostok ice core data, reproducing the asymmetries of rapid heating--slow cooling, and short interglacial--long glacial ages. : 15 pages, 4 figures. Source file processed with PDFLaTeX. Class used: svjour3. This new version delves deep into mathematical and physical aspects of the model presented. It is a replacement for arXiv:1308.2709 |
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de la Cuesta, Diego Jiménez Garduño, René Núñez, Darío Rumbos, Beatriz Vergara-Cervantes, Carlos |
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de la Cuesta, Diego Jiménez Garduño, René Núñez, Darío Rumbos, Beatriz Vergara-Cervantes, Carlos |
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The Carbon Cycle as the Main Determinant of Glacial-Interglacial Transitions |
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The Carbon Cycle as the Main Determinant of Glacial-Interglacial Transitions |
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The Carbon Cycle as the Main Determinant of Glacial-Interglacial Transitions |
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The Carbon Cycle as the Main Determinant of Glacial-Interglacial Transitions |
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The Carbon Cycle as the Main Determinant of Glacial-Interglacial Transitions |
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carbon cycle as the main determinant of glacial-interglacial transitions |
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