Synchronization of polar climate variability over the last ice age: in search of simple rules at the heart of climate's complexity

@article{Rial2012SynchronizationOP,
  title={Synchronization of polar climate variability over the last ice age: in search of simple rules at the heart of climate's complexity},
  author={J. Rial},
  journal={American Journal of Science},
  year={2012},
  volume={312},
  pages={417 - 448}
}
  • J. Rial
  • Published 2012
  • Geology
  • American Journal of Science
Evidence is presented supporting the hypothesis of polar synchronization, which states that during the last ice age, and likely in earlier times, millennial-scale temperature changes of the north and south Polar Regions were coupled and synchronized. The term synchronization as used here describes how two or more coupled nonlinear oscillators adjust their (initially different) natural rhythms to a common frequency and constant relative phase. In the case of the Polar Regions heat and mass… Expand
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