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Journal Article
Tracing ancient solar cycles with tree rings and radiocarbon in the first millennium BCE
2025
Overview
The Sun drives Earth’s energy systems, influencing weather, ocean currents, and agricultural productivity. Understanding solar variability is critical, but direct observations are limited to 400 years of sunspot records. To extend this timeline, cosmic ray-produced radionuclides like
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C in tree-rings provide invaluable insights. However, few records have the resolution or temporal span required to thoroughly investigate important short-term solar phenomena, such as the 11-year solar cycle, or
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C production spikes most likely linked to solar energetic particle (SEP) events. Here we present a continuous, annually resolved atmospheric
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C record from tree-rings spanning the first millennium BCE, confirming no new SEP’s and clearly defining the 11-year solar cycle, with a mean period of 10.5 years, and amplitude of approximately 0.4‰ in
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C concentration. This dataset offers unprecedented detail on solar behavior over long timescales, providing insights for climatic research and solar hazard mitigation, while also offering enhanced radiocarbon calibration and dating accuracy.
An annually resolved tree ring radiocarbon record reveals the 11-year solar cycle in the first millennium BCE, improving understanding of past solar activity and enhancing radiocarbon dating accuracy.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group,Nature Portfolio
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