Recent publications on climate dynamics
Peer reviewed papers
Rial, J. A. “On the Origin of the Long Period Sawtooth Shape of the Late Pleistocene Paleoclimate Records: The First Derivative of the Earth’s Orbital Eccentricity.” Geophysical Research Letters 22, no. 15 (1995): 1997–2000. doi:10.1029/95GL01811.
Rial, J. A. “Pacemaking the Ice Ages by Frequency Modulation of Earth’s Orbital Eccentricity.” Science 285, no. 5427 (1999): 564–568.
Rial, J. A., and C. A. Anaclerio. “Understanding Nonlinear Responses of the Climate System to Orbital Forcing.” Quaternary Science Reviews 19, no. 17 (2000): 1709–1722.
Rial, José A. “Abrupt Climate Change: Chaos and Order at Orbital and Millennial Scales.” Global and Planetary Change 41, no. 2 (2004): 95–109.
Rial, J. A. “Earth’s Orbital Eccentricity and the Rhythm of the Pleistocene Ice Ages: The Concealed Pacemaker.” Global and Planetary Change 41, no. 2 (2004): 81–93.
Rial, José A., Roger A. Pielke Sr, Martin Beniston, Martin Claussen, Josep Canadell, Peter Cox, Hermann Held, Nathalie De Noblet-Ducoudré, Ronald Prinn, and James F. Reynolds. “Nonlinearities, Feedbacks and Critical Thresholds Within the Earth’s Climate System.” Climatic Change 65, no. 1–2 (2004): 11–38.
Clark, Peter U., David Archer, David Pollard, Joel D. Blum, Jose A. Rial, Victor Brovkin, Alan C. Mix, Nicklas G. Pisias, and Martin Roy. “The Middle Pleistocene Transition: Characteristics, Mechanisms, and Implications for Long-term Changes in Atmospheric pCO2.” Quaternary Science Reviews 25, no. 23–24 (December 2006): 3150–3184. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.07.008.
Rial, J. A., and M. Yang. “Is the Frequency of Abrupt Climate Change Modulated by the Orbital Insolation?” Ocean Circulation: Mechanisms and Impacts-Past and Future Changes of Meridional Overturning (2007): 167–174.
Rial, J. A., C. Tang, and K. Steffen. “Glacial Rumblings from Jakobshavn Ice Stream, Greenland.” Journal of Glaciology 55, no. 191 (2009): 389–399.
Rial, J. A., and R. Saha. “Modeling Abrupt Climate Change as the Interaction Between Sea Ice Extent and Mean Ocean Temperature Under Orbital Insolation Forcing.” Abrupt Climate Change: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Impacts (2011): 57–74.
Rial, J. A. “Synchronization of Polar Climate Variability over the Last Ice Age: In Search of Simple Rules at the Heart of Climate’s Complexity.” American Journal of Science 312, no. 4 (2012): 417–448.
Rial, José A., Jeseung Oh, and Elizabeth Reischmann. “Synchronization of the Climate System to Eccentricity Forcing and the 100,000-year Problem.” Nature Geoscience 6, no. 4 (2013): 289–293.
Oh, Jeseung, Elizabeth Reischmann, and José A. Rial. “Polar Synchronization and the Synchronized Climatic History of Greenland and Antarctica.” Quaternary Science Reviews 83 (January 1, 2014): 129–142. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.025.
Yang, X., J. A. Rial, and E. P. Reischmann (2014), On the bipolar origin of Heinrich events, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1002/2014GL062078/abstract.
Rial, J. A. “Pacemaking the Ice Ages by Frequency Modulation of Earth’s Orbital Eccentricity.” Science 285, no. 5427 (1999): 564–568.
Rial, J. A., and C. A. Anaclerio. “Understanding Nonlinear Responses of the Climate System to Orbital Forcing.” Quaternary Science Reviews 19, no. 17 (2000): 1709–1722.
Rial, José A. “Abrupt Climate Change: Chaos and Order at Orbital and Millennial Scales.” Global and Planetary Change 41, no. 2 (2004): 95–109.
Rial, J. A. “Earth’s Orbital Eccentricity and the Rhythm of the Pleistocene Ice Ages: The Concealed Pacemaker.” Global and Planetary Change 41, no. 2 (2004): 81–93.
Rial, José A., Roger A. Pielke Sr, Martin Beniston, Martin Claussen, Josep Canadell, Peter Cox, Hermann Held, Nathalie De Noblet-Ducoudré, Ronald Prinn, and James F. Reynolds. “Nonlinearities, Feedbacks and Critical Thresholds Within the Earth’s Climate System.” Climatic Change 65, no. 1–2 (2004): 11–38.
Clark, Peter U., David Archer, David Pollard, Joel D. Blum, Jose A. Rial, Victor Brovkin, Alan C. Mix, Nicklas G. Pisias, and Martin Roy. “The Middle Pleistocene Transition: Characteristics, Mechanisms, and Implications for Long-term Changes in Atmospheric pCO2.” Quaternary Science Reviews 25, no. 23–24 (December 2006): 3150–3184. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.07.008.
Rial, J. A., and M. Yang. “Is the Frequency of Abrupt Climate Change Modulated by the Orbital Insolation?” Ocean Circulation: Mechanisms and Impacts-Past and Future Changes of Meridional Overturning (2007): 167–174.
Rial, J. A., C. Tang, and K. Steffen. “Glacial Rumblings from Jakobshavn Ice Stream, Greenland.” Journal of Glaciology 55, no. 191 (2009): 389–399.
Rial, J. A., and R. Saha. “Modeling Abrupt Climate Change as the Interaction Between Sea Ice Extent and Mean Ocean Temperature Under Orbital Insolation Forcing.” Abrupt Climate Change: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Impacts (2011): 57–74.
Rial, J. A. “Synchronization of Polar Climate Variability over the Last Ice Age: In Search of Simple Rules at the Heart of Climate’s Complexity.” American Journal of Science 312, no. 4 (2012): 417–448.
Rial, José A., Jeseung Oh, and Elizabeth Reischmann. “Synchronization of the Climate System to Eccentricity Forcing and the 100,000-year Problem.” Nature Geoscience 6, no. 4 (2013): 289–293.
Oh, Jeseung, Elizabeth Reischmann, and José A. Rial. “Polar Synchronization and the Synchronized Climatic History of Greenland and Antarctica.” Quaternary Science Reviews 83 (January 1, 2014): 129–142. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.025.
Yang, X., J. A. Rial, and E. P. Reischmann (2014), On the bipolar origin of Heinrich events, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1002/2014GL062078/abstract.
Abstracts
Rial, J., and R. Saha. “Stochastic Resonance, Frequency Modulation and the Mechanisms of Abrupt Climate Change in the Arctic.” In First International Symposium on Arctic Research, Drastic Change Under Global Warming (ext. Abs.), Miraikan, Tokyo, 94–97, 2008.
Oh, J., Rial J. A., and Reischmann, E. (2012), "Polar synchrony and the climatic history of Antarctica deduced from Greenland’s", Abstract PP43A-2024 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 3-7 Dec.
Rial, J. A., Oh, J., and Reischmann, E. (2012), "Forced nonlinear synchronization of the climate system by the orbital eccentricity explains puzzling features of climatic history, including the MPT switch, and the MIS11 amplitude anomaly", Abstract PP13B-2108 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 3-7 Dec.
Reischmann E., Yang X., and Rial J. A. (2013), "Millennial scale system impulse response of polar climates – deconvolution results between δ 18O records from Greenland and Antarctica", Abstract presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 9-13 Dec.
Oh J., Reischmann E., and Rial J. A. (2013), "Synchronized dipole-like oscillations in global Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly (SSTA)", Abstract presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 9-13 Dec.
Yang X., Reischmann E., and Rial J. A. (2013), "Inter-polar climate evolution and the timing of the Heinrich events", Abstract presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 9-13 Dec.
Rial J. A., Yang X., and Reischmann E. (2014), "Nonlinear synchronization of climate subsystems", Abstract presented at EGU General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, 27 April - 02 May 2014
Reischmann E., Yang X., and Rial J. A. (2014), "Detecting the Spectrum of the Atlantic’s Thermo-haline Circulation: Deconvolved Climate Proxies Show How Polar Climates Communicate", Abstract presented at EGU General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, 27 April - 02 May 2014
Yang X., Reischmann E., and Rial J. A. (2014), "Timing of Heinrich Events and its Relation to the Synchronization of Polar Climates", Abstract presented at EGU General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, 27 April - 02 May 2014
Oh, J., Rial J. A., and Reischmann, E. (2012), "Polar synchrony and the climatic history of Antarctica deduced from Greenland’s", Abstract PP43A-2024 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 3-7 Dec.
Rial, J. A., Oh, J., and Reischmann, E. (2012), "Forced nonlinear synchronization of the climate system by the orbital eccentricity explains puzzling features of climatic history, including the MPT switch, and the MIS11 amplitude anomaly", Abstract PP13B-2108 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 3-7 Dec.
Reischmann E., Yang X., and Rial J. A. (2013), "Millennial scale system impulse response of polar climates – deconvolution results between δ 18O records from Greenland and Antarctica", Abstract presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 9-13 Dec.
Oh J., Reischmann E., and Rial J. A. (2013), "Synchronized dipole-like oscillations in global Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly (SSTA)", Abstract presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 9-13 Dec.
Yang X., Reischmann E., and Rial J. A. (2013), "Inter-polar climate evolution and the timing of the Heinrich events", Abstract presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 9-13 Dec.
Rial J. A., Yang X., and Reischmann E. (2014), "Nonlinear synchronization of climate subsystems", Abstract presented at EGU General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, 27 April - 02 May 2014
Reischmann E., Yang X., and Rial J. A. (2014), "Detecting the Spectrum of the Atlantic’s Thermo-haline Circulation: Deconvolved Climate Proxies Show How Polar Climates Communicate", Abstract presented at EGU General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, 27 April - 02 May 2014
Yang X., Reischmann E., and Rial J. A. (2014), "Timing of Heinrich Events and its Relation to the Synchronization of Polar Climates", Abstract presented at EGU General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, 27 April - 02 May 2014
