%0 Journal Article %T Orbital forcings of the Earth¡¯s climate in wavelet domain %A A. V. Glushkov %A V. N. Khokhlov %A N. S. Loboda %A V. D. Rusov %J Climate of the Past Discussions %D 2005 %I Copernicus Publications %X We examine two paleoclimate proxy records ¨C the temperature differences from the Antarctic Vostok ice core and the composite ¦Ä18O record from three sites (V19-30, ODP 677, and ODP 846) ¨C in order to search for indications of orbital forcings. We demonstrate that the non-decimated wavelet transform is an appropriate tool for investigating temporarily changing spectral properties of records. Our results indicate that abrupt climate warmings with cyclicity of ~100 kiloyears during the last 400 kiloyears were caused by the combined unidirectional influences of three orbital parameters and the eccentricity can be considered as a modulator defining transitions from the Ice Ages to the periods of comparative warmings. Non-decimated wavelet transform avails discovering the possible part played in climate change by the eccentricity-forced variations. Up to approximately 1.7 million years BP, the influence of this variations of eccentricity appears in increasing for almost all local maxima of ¦Ä18O. Since the ~1.7 million years BP, minor and significant maxima alternated and this not affected as much the variations of ¦Ä18O. %U http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/1/193/2005/cpd-1-193-2005.pdf