Long-term variations of solar radiation in Europe

The GLORYS12v.1 and ERA5 reanalyses for different months are used to study a relationship between long-term variations in the monthly mean values of sea level in different areas of the Kara Sea and their steric factors during 1993-2018. The areas of the sea were identified where the relationships between these changes and variations in the mean temperature and salinity of the upper quasihomogeneous water layer, as well as the variations in the monthly mean intensity of their insolation, are statistically significant.

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Long-term variations of available solar radiation on seasonal timescales in 1955–2006 at Tartu-Tõravere Meteorological Station, Estonia

Theoretical and Applied Climatology ◽

10.1007/s00704-009-0226-6 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 101 (3-4) ◽

pp. 371-379 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Kalju Eerme ◽

Ain Kallis ◽

Uno Veismann ◽

Ilmar Ansko

Keyword(s):

Solar Radiation ◽

Meteorological Station ◽

Long Term Variations

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Milankovitch, the father of paleoclimate modelling

10.5194/cp-2021-9 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Andre Berger

Keyword(s):

Solar Radiation ◽

Incoming Solar Radiation ◽

Original Contribution ◽

Winter Insolation ◽

Long Term Variations ◽

Paleoclimate Modelling

Abstract. The origin of the long-term variations of the astronomical elements used by Milankovitch are first described, followed by the value of the astronomical periods. The detailed calculations by Milankovitch of the incoming solar radiation during the astronomical and caloric half-years are summarized, stressing the originality of the caloric ones. The second original contribution of Milankovitch to paleoclimate research was without any doubt his mathematical climate. How this model allowed him to give the caloric summer and winter insolation a climatological meaning is illustrated.

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Milankovitch, the father of paleoclimate modeling

Climate of the Past ◽

10.5194/cp-17-1727-2021 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 1727-1733 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Andre Berger

Keyword(s):

Mathematical Model ◽

Solar Radiation ◽

Climate Variations ◽

Paleoclimate Modeling ◽

Quaternary Climate ◽

History Of ◽

Astronomical Theory ◽

Winter Insolation ◽

Long Term Variations

Abstract. The history of the long-term variations in the astronomical elements used in paleoclimate research shows that, contrary to what might be thought, Milutin Milankovitch is not the father of the astronomical theory but he is definitely the father of paleoclimate modeling. He did not calculate these long-term variations himself but used them extensively for calculating the “secular march” of incoming solar radiation. He advanced our understanding of Quaternary climate variations by two important and original contributions fully described in his Canon of insolation. These are the definition and use of caloric seasons and the concept of the “mathematical climate”. How his mathematical model allowed him to give the caloric summer and winter insolation a climatological meaning is illustrated.

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