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Is climate predictable on a geological time scale?

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The aim of our work is to show that the global climate is predictable on a geological time scale (several tens and hundred thousands of years) on the basis of the structure of the peaks in the power spectra of the Pleistocene climate oscillations, which are the responses of the climate system to variations in solar radiation due to the orbital cyclicity of obliquity and precession of the Earth’s orbit.

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  1. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nakhimovskii pr. 36, Moscow, 117997, Russia

    N. V. Vakulenko & D. M. Sonechkin

  2. Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Staromonetnyi per. 29, Moscow, 119017, Russia

    V. M. Kotlyakov

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  1. N. V. Vakulenko
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Original Russian Text © N.V. Vakulenko, V.M. Kotlyakov, D.M. Sonechkin, 2015, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2015, Vol. 460, No. 1, pp. 215–219.

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Vakulenko, N.V., Kotlyakov, V.M. & Sonechkin, D.M. Is climate predictable on a geological time scale?. Dokl. Earth Sc. 460, 68–72 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X15010146

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