Persistent Solar Influence on North Atlantic Climate During the Holocene
2001/12/07 by Gérard C. Bond, Bernd Kromer, J. Beer +7 · 32 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Marine and environmental studies #Isotope Analysis in Ecology
paper · doi:10.1126/science.1065680
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Abstract
Surface winds and surface ocean hydrography in the subpolar North Atlantic appear to have been influenced by variations in solar output through the entire Holocene. The evidence comes from a close correlation between inferred changes in production rates of the cosmogenic nuclides carbon-14 and beryllium-10 and centennial to millennial time scale changes in proxies of drift ice measured in deep-sea sediment cores. A solar forcing mechanism therefore may underlie at least the Holocene segment of the North Atlantic's "1500-year" cycle. The surface hydrographic changes may have affected production of North Atlantic Deep Water, potentially providing an additional mechanism for amplifying the solar signals and transmitting them globally.
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