> What are the dynamics at the
> peak temperature of the interglacial?
Each interglacial is somewhat unique. I have so far studed the
previous interglacial, the Eemian peaking about 134,000 years ago
(rectntly corrected from 125,000 years ago), and sometimes called
simply Termination II. I looked at the Vostok ice core records
available on the NOAA Paleoclimatology site, in particular the data of
Petit et al.
Based on just this, it appears that the peak in CO2 and temperature
occured at the same time =/- 50 years. More interesting is the
following downtrend, which certainly appears to have CO2 reduction
leading temperature reduction by several hundred years.
However, this is only one of the three papers on just the Vostok ice
core. For Termination II there are many more ice cores to be studied
before reaching any definitive statement.
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