ry motion exhibits very long-term stability defined as the non-existence of close encounter events, the chaotic nature of planetary dynamics can change the oscillatory period and amplitude of planetary orbital motion gradually over such long time-spans. Even such slight fluctuations of orbital variation in the frequency domain, particularly in the case of Earth, can potentially have a significant effect on its surface climate system through solar insolation variation (cf. Berger 1988).
To give an overview of the long-term change in periodicity in planetary orbital motion, we performed many fast Fourier transformations (FFTs) along the time axis, and superposed the resulting periodgrams to draw two-dimensional time–frequency maps. The specific approach to drawing these time–frequency maps in this paper is very simple – much simpler than the wavelet analysis or Laskar's (1990, 1993) frequency analysis.
Divide the low-pass filtered orbital data into many fragments of the sam
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