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Clim. Past, 8, 1213–1221, 2012 Climate /8/1213/2012/ doi:10.5194/cp-8-1213-2012 of the Past © Author(s) 2012. CC Attribution 3.0 License. Tightened constraints on the time-lag between Antarctic temperature and CO2 during the last deglaciation 1,2 3 2,4 J. B. Pedro , S. O. Rasmussen , and T. D. van Ommen 1Antarctic Climate Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 2Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 3Centre for Ice and Climate, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 4Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, Tasmania, Australia Correspondence to: J. B. Pedro (jbpedro@.au) Received: 31 January 2012 – Published in Clim. Past Discuss.: 20 February 2012 Revised: 27 June 2012 – Accepted: 27 June 2012 – Published: 23 July 2012 Abstract. Antarctic ice cores provide clear evidence of processes of the relatively weak orbital signal is then required a close coupling between variations in Antarctic tempera- to explain the full magnitude of the glacial to interglacial cli- ture and the atmospheric concentration of CO2 during the mate change (Lorius et al., 1990). Changes in the carbon cy- glacial/interglacial cycles of at least the past 800-thousand cle play a central role among these feedbacks (Lorius et al., years. Precise information on the relative timing of the tem- 1990; Shackleton, 2000; Shakun et al., 2012). Mounting ev- perature and CO2 changes can assist in refining our under- idence attributes a large component of the deglacial CO2 in- standing of the