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Raimund Muscheler

Raimund Muscheler

Professor

Raimund Muscheler

The Revised Sunspot Record in Comparison to Cosmogenic Radionuclide-Based Solar Activity Reconstructions

Author

  • Raimund Muscheler
  • Florian Adolphi
  • Konstantin Herbst
  • Andreas Nilsson

Summary, in English

Recent revisions in the sunspot records illustrate the challenges related to obtaining a 400-year-long observational record of past solar-activity changes. Cosmogenic radionuclides offer the possibility of obtaining an alternative and completely independent record of solar variability. Here, we illustrate that these records offer great potential for quantitative solar-activity reconstructions far back into the past, and we provide updated radionuclide-based solar-activity reconstructions for the past 2000 years. However, cosmogenic-radionuclide records are also influenced by processes independent of solar activity, leading to the need for critical assessment and correction for the non-solar influences. Independent of these uncertainties, we show a very good agreement between the revised sunspot records and the 10Be records from Antarctica and, in particular, the 14C-based solar-activity reconstructions. This comparison offers the potential of identifying remaining non-solar processes in the radionuclide-based solar-activity reconstructions, but it also helps identifying remaining biases in the recently revised sunspot records.

Department/s

  • Quaternary Sciences
  • MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system

Publishing year

2016-11

Language

English

Pages

3025-3043

Publication/Series

Solar Physics

Volume

291

Issue

9-10

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Geosciences, Multidisciplinary

Keywords

  • Be
  • C
  • Cosmogenic radionuclides
  • Solar modulation
  • Solar-activity reconstruction
  • Sunspots

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0038-0938