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The inherent nonlinearity of reasonable models for the Earth’s climatic system suggests the relevance of bifurcation studies to the problem of ice ages. Exchanges of stability between equilibria, periodic and quasiperiodic solutions are possible explanations of different features in the paleoclimatic record.
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Ghil, M. (1980). Successive Bifurcations and the Ice-Age Problem. In: Bardos, C., Bessis, D. (eds) Bifurcation Phenomena in Mathematical Physics and Related Topics. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 54. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9004-3_3
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