Earth's Climate History from 4.5 Billion Years to One Minute

Earth's Climate History from 4.5 Billion Years to One Minute

Earth's climate history is important for understanding the dynamics and feedbacks of the climate system. However, atmospheric sciences generally focus on shorter timescales, while geological sciences focus on longer timescales, but a unified picture is desired. This paper reviews the observatio...

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Published in:Atmosphere-ocean 2022-08, Vol.60 (3-4), p.188-232
Main Authors: Lin, Jialin, Qian, Taotao
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Amplitudes
Atmospheric sciences
Carbon dioxide
Climate
Climate system
Climate variability
Cycles
Diurnal
Diurnal cycle
Diurnal variations
Earth
Earth's clime history
Interannual oscillation
Interglacial periods
Oscillations
palaeotemperature
Sea level
sea level change
Seasonal variation
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Summary:Earth's climate history is important for understanding the dynamics and feedbacks of the climate system. However, atmospheric sciences generally focus on shorter timescales, while geological sciences focus on longer timescales, but a unified picture is desired. This paper reviews the observations of Earth's climate history from 4.5 billion years to one minute with emphasis on temperature, sea level, and atmospheric carbon dioxide. Earth's climate history shows dominant climate modes such as the supercontinent cycles, interglacial cycles, millennial cycles, multi-decadal oscillation, interannual oscillation, seasonal cycle and diurnal cycle. The amplitudes of the dominant climate variability generally decrease from the billion-year timescales to interannual timescales, then significantly increase at subannual to diurnal timescales.
ISSN:0705-5900
1480-9214