Not exact matches
The time
for the orbit to return to its initial condition is known as a
precession cycle.
For the ice age — interglacial variations of the last few million years, a transition occured within the last million years where a 100,000 year timescale seemed to become dominant, whereas previously the variations followed the obliquity (~ 40,000 years) and
precession cycles.
For the life of me I just can not fathom why this rather normal, half -
precession cycle old interglacial will not continue in perpetuity.
For a completely carbon - dioxide - free reconstruction of the Vostok temperatures since 450 000 years refer to O. G. Sorokhtin (references on card n ° 7) chapter 4.4 pp. 180 - 190
Precession Cycles and the Earth Climate: it explains in detail and computes the quick de-glaciations observed by G.Roe and by Lisiecki & Raymo, with all the «saw - teeth».
The LR04 age model establishes that MIS 11 spans two
precession cycles, with 18O values below 3.6 o / oo
for 20 kyr, from 398 - 418 ka.
For instance the number of Earth days in one degree of the
Precession of the Equinox, is equal to the total number of years in the whole precessionary
cycle.