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The problem of climate change requires to attribute observed climate variations to natural sources of variability and anthropogenic forcing factors. Climate variability from the decadal over centennial to the millennial time scales and the transitions from glacials to interglacials are determined by strong nonlinear interactions between the changes in the incoming solar radiation, its absorption in the atmosphere and the ocean and the initiation of large ice sheets which has a strong influence on the quasi-stationary atmospheric waves.
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Dethloff, K., Rinke, A., Handorf, D., Weisheimer, A., Dorn, W. (2004). Nonlinear Dynamics of the Climate System. In: Fischer, H., et al. The Climate in Historical Times. GKSS School of Environmental Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10313-5_2
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