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    Solar and geomagnetic forcing of the terrestrial radiocarbon cycle.

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    Author
    Jirikowic, John Louis.
    Issue Date
    1994
    Keywords
    Geophysics.
    Committee Chair
    Damon, Paul E.
    
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    The University of Arizona.
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    Solar and geomagnetic fields modulate the flux of galactic cosmic rays (GCR) by electromagnetic and turbulent forcing. GCR flux into the Earth's atmosphere produces cosmogenic isotopes such as ¹⁴C. Cosmogenic isotopes then mix into their respective geochemical systems. Cosmogenic isotope archives reflect environmental levels during deposition and provide records of production, GCR flux and solar-geomagnetic modulation. Solar activity indices verify that ¹⁴C activities in tree rings record century-scale solar activity variations including profound solar activity minima, such as the Maunder Minimum, during the past millennium. The radiocarbon calibration tree-ring ¹⁴C data set spans nearly the length of the Holocene providing a well-dated solar-geomagnetic modulation record. Spectral analyses of earlier ¹⁴C data sets have suggested a complex pattern of fundamental, harmonic and combination tones. Many of these features result from a non-stationary higher ¹⁴C variability persisting about 600 years between 1500-year hiati with lower ¹⁴C variability. We have termed this variation the Hallstattzeit cycle (Damon and Jirikowic, 1992a) after a profound episode during the first millennium BC. Two better-known ¹⁴C variations, the ≈210-year Suess cycle, and ≈88-year Gleissberg, respond quite differently to the Hallstattzeit variation. The Suess is strongly amplitude modulated, the Gleissberg is not. Both show evidence of continuous phase change during the high-variability intervals. The Gleissberg and the Suess show amplitude modulation with the inverse of the geomagnetic field intensity. These modulations produce associated side-band spectral peaks confirming the influence of the ≈2100-year Hallstattzeit variance on the Suess and the influence of the Suess cycle upon the phase of the Gleissberg cycle. All periods between ≈2000 and ≈250 years reported by spectral analysis reflect the non-stationary Hallstattzeit variation, most likely through Gibbs phenomena. The Holocene history of solar-wind and geomagnetic modulation of GCR can be reconstructed from the tree-ring ¹⁴C data set. Quasi-periodicity limits extrapolating these variations into the future.
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    Geosciences
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