The net result is that a small change in the Earth's orbit and/or tilt can trigger a large change in its climate dynamics.

The institute operates world-wide in all ocean basins, specialising in climate dynamics, marine ecology and biogeochemistry, and ocean floor dynamics and circulation.

Because these cycles are directly related to climate dynamics and are heavily impacted by global change, it is essential to quantify them.

The two orbiters are to operate for at least 22 months to provide a minimum of two seasons of data on climate dynamics, scientists said.

Researchers have explored early warning signals in lakes, climate dynamics, food webs, dry land transitions and epilepsy attacks.

"That is roughly 5 to 10 times faster than we can," said Dr. Jay S. Fein, the program director for climate dynamics at the National Science Foundation.

Under a fellowship from the National Science Foundation, Currey was studying the climate dynamics of the Little Ice Age using dendrochronology techniques.

Stochastic climate dynamics: Random attractors and time-dependent invariant measures.

But it does show how major changes in climate dynamics can have unexpected impacts that don't directly depend on temperatures.

He has published papers on climate dynamics, stochastic processes, ocean waves, remote sensing, and integrated assessment studies.