Yellowstone supervolcano gave us a caldera 50 miles long and 30 miles wide. It also contributed substantially to the ice age that was due about that time.
Posts Tagged ‘long-term weather factors’
Yellowstone 640,000 years ago
Posted in geology, Meteorology, tagged long-term weather factors, Yellowstone on December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Long term weather influences: – Precession
Posted in Meteorology, tagged long-term weather factors, Mlankovic, precession on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Long term weather trends are affected by the revolutions of the Earth on its axic and by the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. It’s very complicated, and very long term, but it is important.
Long-term weather factors – eccentricity
Posted in Meteorology, tagged eccentricity, long-term weather factors, Milutin Milanković on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Milutin Milanković figured out that changes in the elliptical character of the Earth’s orbit could cause times of greater climatic coldness.
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