Past Environmental Changes: Characteristic Features of Quaternary Climate Variations
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Climate varies, both temporally and spatially, and the focus of the body of palaeoclimatic research has been to characterize and explain this variation. What has emerged is a view of climate as a multi-component system that varies across a range of temporal and spatial scales. Imbedded in these variations are some characteristic features such as trends, abrupt changes, periodicities, and the formation of spatial mosaics of climatic changes; these features occur on many scales and are the subject of this paper.
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