On the cause of the Mid‐Pleistocene transition

CJ Berends, P Köhler, LJ Lourens, RSW Van de Wal - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mid‐Pleistocene Transition (MPT), where the Pleistocene glacial cycles
changed from 41 to∼ 100 kyr periodicity, is one of the most intriguing unsolved issues in the …

The Mid-Pleistocene climate transition: onset of 100 ka cycle lags ice volume build-up by 280 ka

M Mudelsee, M Schulz - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 1997 - Elsevier
The Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition (MPT) is the complex climatic change which brought
the Late Pleistocene ice ages. We explore the MPT in the time and frequency domains by …

The mid-Pleistocene climate transition

TD Herbert - Annual review of earth and planetary sciences, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The timing of ice ages over the past∼ 2,600 thousand years (kyr) follows pacing by cyclical
changes in three aspects of Earth's orbit that influence the solar energy received as a …

Pleistocene sea-surface temperature evolution: Early cooling, delayed glacial intensification, and implications for the mid-Pleistocene climate transition

EL McClymont, SM Sosdian, A Rosell-Melé… - Earth-Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
The mid-Pleistocene climate transition (MPT) is defined by the emergence of high amplitude,
quasi-100ka glacial–interglacial cycles from a prior regime of more subtle 41kacycles. This …

Causes of ice age intensification across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition

TB Chalk, MP Hain, GL Foster… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT; 1,200–800 kya), Earth's orbitally paced ice age
cycles intensified, lengthened from∼ 40,000 (∼ 40 ky) to∼ 100 ky, and became distinctly …

Diverse manifestations of the mid-Pleistocene climate transition

Y Sun, Q Yin, M Crucifix, SC Clemens… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT) is widely recognized as a shift in paleoclimatic
periodicity from 41-to 100-kyr cycles, which largely reflects integrated changes in global ice …

The middle Pleistocene transition: characteristics, mechanisms, and implications for long-term changes in atmospheric pCO2

PU Clark, D Archer, D Pollard, JD Blum, JA Rial… - Quaternary Science …, 2006 - Elsevier
The emergence of low-frequency, high-amplitude, quasi-periodic (∼ 100-kyr) glacial
variability during the middle Pleistocene in the absence of any significant change in orbital …

Plio—Pleistocene time evolution of the 100‐kyr cycle in marine paleoclimate records

J Park, KA Maasch - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
To constrain theories for the dynamic evolution of global ice mass through the late Neogene,
it is important to determine whether major changes in the record were gradual or rapid. Of …

A one-dimensional model of continental ice volume fluctuations through the Pleistocene: implications for the origin of the mid-Pleistocene climate transition

G DeBlonde, WR Peltier - Journal of Climate, 1991 - journals.ametsoc.org
A new one-dimensional, zonally averaged high resolution spherical model of the
accumulation and flow of continental ice sheets in response to variations in insolation …

Climate evolution through the onset and intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation

EL McClymont, SL Ho, HL Ford, I Bailey… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Pliocene Epoch (∼ 5.3–2.6 million years ago, Ma) was characterized by a
warmer than present climate with smaller Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, and offers an …