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Palaeoclimate: Low-down on a rhythmic high
Katharina Billups1
Abstract
Changes in the amount of solar energy reaching Earth account for certain climate cycles at high and low latitudes. Surprisingly, the effects of a high-latitude cycle evidently reached into the tropics.
During the 1920s, Milutin Milankovitch, a Serbian mathematician, calculated the effects of alterations in Earth's motion around the Sun on the amount of solar energy reaching different latitudes1. Since then, some of the long-period, cyclic changes seen in archives of past environmental conditions on Earth have been explained by these changes in insolation.
- Katharina Billups is at the College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware, 700 Pilottown Road, Lewes, Delaware 19958, USA.
Email: kbillups@udel.edu
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