Predictable ice ages on a chaotic planet

Didier Paillard (1, 2)

1 LSCE - Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette]
2 CLIM - Modélisation du climat

Statistical analysis has revealed a simple rule for the occurrence of warm periods during the Quaternary, whereas on much longer timescales geological data have confirmed that the Solar System is chaotic

Domains: Climatology

Didier Paillard. Predictable ice ages on a chaotic planet. Nature, 2017, 542 (7642), pp.419 - 420. ⟨10.1038/542419a⟩. ⟨cea-01887624⟩