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🌊 Earth's wobble sets the Arctic's ice rhythm
A climate model spanning 800,000 years found a slow wobble in Earth's orbit leaves a clear mark on how much winter sea ice forms in the Arctic each year.
🔗 doi.org/10.1029/2026gl125062
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High‐ and Low‐Latitude Insolation Forcing Drives the Half‐Precession Cycle in Winter Arctic Sea Ice
Significant eccentricity-modulated half-precession cycle emerges in winter Arctic sea ice variations in response to astronomical forcing The half-precession cycle results from high-latitude summe...
