Forcing Mechanisms Behind Rapid Late Cenozoic Climate Shifts
Multi-component attribution of climate forcing over the past 10 million years
Summary Metrics
Total Cooling
8.71 C
Mean Temperature
13.98 C
Temperature Std Dev
3.19 C
Cooling Events Detected
15
Dominant Period
102.4 kyr
Model R-squared
0.9968
Variance Decomposition
Forcing-Temperature Correlation
Epoch Temperature Analysis
Late Miocene
16.81 C
Pliocene
13.41 C
Early Pleistocene
9.70 C
Middle Pleistocene
8.86 C
Late Pleistocene
8.81 C
Bayesian Attribution Weights
Top Rapid Cooling Events
Onset (Ma)
Duration (kyr)
Magnitude (K)
Rate (K/Myr)
6.96
55.0
1.39
35.12
1.87
74.0
1.33
32.22
6.85
54.0
1.26
41.15
2.46
64.0
1.22
30.78
2.96
55.0
1.18
32.65