Milankovitch and climate : understanding the response to astronomical forcing. (Proceedings of NATO Advanced Research Workshop on..., held Palisades, NY, 30 Nov-4 Dec 1982). Part 2

Front Matter....Pages i-ix Front Matter....Pages 511-511 An Evaluation of Ocean-Climate Theories on the North Atlantic....Pages 671-686 Terminations....Pages 687-698 Models for Reconstructing Temperature and Ice Volume from Oxygen Isotope Data....Pages 699-705 Insolation Gradients and the Paleoclimatic Record....Pages 707-713 Summer Temperature Variations in the Arctic during Interglacials....Pages 715-720 Changes in Decadally Averaged Sea Surface Temperature over the World 1861–1980....Pages 721-727 Sea-Level Fluctuations as Evidence of the Milankovitch Cycles and of the Planetary-Solar Modulation of Climate....Pages 729-729 A Sensitivity Experiment to Astronomical Forcing with a Spectral GCM: Simulation of the Annual Cycle at 125 000 BP and 115 000 BP....Pages 733-763 A Two-Dimensional Climate Model Useful in Ice Age Applications....Pages 513-518 A Simple Seasonal Climate Model and Its Response to Variations in the Orbital Parameters....Pages 519-525 Preliminary Results on the Simulation of Climate during the Last Deglaciation with a Thermodynamic Model....Pages 527-537 Some Ice-Age Aspects of a Calving Ice-Sheet Model....Pages 541-564 A Model of the Ice Age Cycle....Pages 565-580 Sensitivities of Cryospheric Models to Insolation and Temperature Variations Using a Surface Energy Balance....Pages 581-597 A Possible Explanation of Differences Between Pre- and Post-Jaramillo Ice Sheet Growth....Pages 599-604 On Long Period Internal Oscillations in a Simple Ice Sheet Model....Pages 605-606 On the Origin of the Ice Ages....Pages 607-611 Earth-Orbital Eccentricity Variations and Climatic Change....Pages 615-636 Self-Oscillations, External Forcings, and Climate Predictability....Pages 637-652 Sensitivity of Internally-Generated Climate Oscillations to Ocean Model Formulation....Pages 653-667 Front Matter....Pages 511-511 The Response of a Climate Model to Orbital Variations....Pages 765-788 Influence of the Climap Ice Sheet on the Climate of a General Circulation Model : Implications for the Milankovitch Theory....Pages 789-799 The Sensitivity of Monsoon Climates to Orbital Parameter Changes for 9 000 Years BP : Experiments with the NCAR General Circulation Model....Pages 801-820 Front Matter....Pages 821-821 Summary, Conclusions and Recommendations....Pages 823-873 Back Matter....Pages 875-895