Milankovitch oscillations

From Glossary of Meteorology



Milankovitch oscillations

Variations in climate that are due to variations in the receipt of solar radiation associated with 1) the precession of the equinoxes and solstices; 2) the varying tilt of the earth's rotational axis; and 3) the varying eccentricity of the earth's orbit.


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