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Possible Effects of Anthropogenically-Increased CO2 on the Dynamics of Climate: Implications for Ice-Age Cycles
Geophysical Research Letters
  • Barry Saltzman
  • Kirk A. Maasch, University of Maine - Main
  • Mikhail Ya. Verbitsky
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Publication Date
4-16-1993
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Abstract/ Summary

A dynamical model, developed to account for the observed major variations of global ice mass and atmospheric CO2 during the late Cenozoic, is used to provide a quantitative demonstration of the possibility that the anthropogenically-forced increase of atmospheric CO2, if maintained over a long period of time (perhaps by tectonic forcing), could displace the climatic system from an unstable regime of oscillating ice ages into a more stable regime representative of the pre-Pleistocene. This stable regime is characterized by orbitally-forced oscillations that are of much weaker amplitude than prevailed during the Pleistocene.

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Saltzman, B, Maasch, KA, and Verbitsky, MY, 1993, Possible Effects of Anthropogenically-Increased Co2 on the Dynamics of Climate: Implications for Ice-Age Cycles: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 20, p. 1051-1054. To view the published open abstract, go to http://dx.doi.org and enter the DOI.
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© Copyright 1993 American Geophysical Union
DOI
10.1029/93GL01015
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Barry Saltzman, Kirk A. Maasch and Mikhail Ya. Verbitsky. "Possible Effects of Anthropogenically-Increased CO2 on the Dynamics of Climate: Implications for Ice-Age Cycles" Geophysical Research Letters Vol. 20 Iss. 11 (1993) p. 1051 - 1054
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