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Science 4 September 1998:
Vol. 281. no. 5382, pp. 1467 - 1468
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5382.1467
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Perspectives

PALEOCLIMATE:
Glacial Puzzles

M. E. Raymo

One of the great puzzles of geoscience is the origin of the 100,000 year cycle between ice ages. In her Perspective, Raymo discusses efforts to model glacial and interglacial climate changes. A very promising attempt, inspired by models of ocean circulation, has recently been published that treats the climate as a system of steady states with rules for moving from one to the next. Although our understanding of these rules is far from perfect, such efforts are essential to solve the puzzle of past climate.

The author is in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. E-mail: raymo{at}mit.edu

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Ad Hoc Committee on Global Climate Issues: Annual Report.
(2000)
AAPG Bulletin 84, 466-471


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