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cooling

[′kül·iŋ]

(nucleonics)

Setting aside a highly radioactive material until the radioactivity has diminished to a desired level.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Cooling

a decrease in body temperature in warm-blooded animals and humans as a result of heat emission that exceeds the formation of heat in the organism. Such a decrease may also result from derangement of the thermoregulatory mechanisms. Cooling is also called hypothermia.

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According to Bond, the pattern of coolings may have a long history.

Scientists simply do not know whether the sun's output weakens and strengthens enough over the millennia to cause the coolings seen about every 2,600 years throughout the Holocene.

22, 1995 Science that the Holocene coolings recorded at Greenland occur about the same time as variations in the atm ospheric concentration of carbon-14, thought to reflect changes in the sun.

Such changes bear the fingerprint of a climatic cooling. As the temperatures dropped, wind speeds would have increased and land areas would have grown more arid-effects that would have put more dust and sea salts into the atmosphere.

The strongest, most recent cooling coincides with the Little Ice Age, a well-documented span of frigid temperatures lasting from the start of the 15th century through the middle of the 19th century.

The case of the global jitters; even in seemingly stable times, climate can take an abrupt turn

From the previous studies, however, scientists could not tell whether the cooling was limited to Greenland.

The soot peak could have come from increased forest fire activity in eastern Canada during the cooling, suggests Ken C.

For now, scientists remain unsure how much the climate changed during the early Holocene cooling. In his studies of soluble chemicals within the GISP 2 core, Paul A.