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Articles | Volume 16, issue 3
Articles | Volume 16, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-16-915-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-16-915-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 16, issue 3
Research article
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27 Jun 2025
Research article |  | 27 Jun 2025

A simple physical model for glacial cycles

Sergio Pérez-Montero, Jorge Alvarez-Solas, Jan Swierczek-Jereczek, Daniel Moreno-Parada, Alexander Robinson, and Marisa Montoya

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The climate of the last 3 Myr has varied between cold and warm periods. Numerous independent mechanisms have been proposed to explain this; however, no effort has been made to study their competing effects. Here we present a simple but physically motivated model that includes these mechanisms in a modular way. We identify ice-sheet dynamics and lithosphere displacement as main triggers, but reproducing the climate records additionally requires the natural darkening of ice.
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