One of the most frequently attempted correlations in Quaternary research is between insolation and paleoclimatic data. Yet there are a large number of insolation time series that could potentially explain a Quaternary dataset, individually or in combination. We computed 342 insolation time series (varying by latitude, time of year and time of day) for fitting to four different paleoclimatic rec...

To understand the regional impact of the atmospheric aerosols on the surface energy and water cycle in the southern Sierra Nevada characterized by extreme variations in terrain elevation, the authors examine the aerosol radiative forcing on surface insolation and snowmelt for the spring of 1998 in a regional climate model experiment. With a prescribed aerosol optical thickness of 0.2, it is fou...

1 Natural climate change: glacial cycles 1 1.1 Climatic cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Milankovitch hypothesis: an introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2.1 Precession, obliquity, and eccentricity . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.2.2 Insolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.3 Precession and obliquity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8...

Incoming solar radiation (insolation) is fundamental to most physical and biophysical processes because of its role in energy and water balance. We calculated insolation maps from digital elevation models, using an insolation model that accounts for atmospheric conditions, elevation, surface orientation, and influences of surrounding topography. Herein, we focus on the application of this insol...

Long-term variations in Northern Hemisphere summer insolation are generally thought to control glaciation. But the intensity of summer insolation is primarily controlled by 20,000-year cycles in the precession of the equinoxes, whereas early Pleistocene glacial cycles occur at 40,000-year intervals, matching the period of changes in Earth's obliquity. The resolution of this 40,000-year problem ...

The growth and retreat of continental ice sheets in the past has largely been a response to changing climatic forcing. Since ablation is the principal component of mass loss for land-based ice sheets, the calculation of surface melt is an important aspect of paleo ice sheet modeling. Changes in insolation are often not accounted for in calculations of surface melt, under the assumption that the...

Introduction Conclusions References Tables Figures ◭ ◮ ◭ ◮ Back Close Full Screen / Esc Abstract Introduction Conclusions References Tables Figures ◭ ◮ ◭ ◮ Back Close Full Screen / Esc Abstract Pleistocene benthic δ 18 O records exhibit strong spectral power at ∼41 kyr, indicating that global ice volume has been modulated by Earth's axial tilt. This feature, and weak spectral power in the prece...

Urban morphology, including buildings’ typology and their configuration, affects sky view factor and insolation, which are two of the most influential parameters in urban microclimate. These become even more important in extreme environmental conditions. In this research, challenge was to generate various rule based urban morphologies in a parametric environment. Then, to evaluate them based on...