Synchronized Northern Hemisphere climate change and solar magnetic cycles during the Maunder Minimum

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 48, 2010, Pages 20697-20702

  Yamaguchi, Yasuhiko T ^a,b   Yokoyama, Yusuke ^a,b   Miyahara, Hiroko ^a   Sho, Kenjiro ^c   Nakatsuka, Takeshi ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Grand solar minimum; Little ice age; Paleoclimate reconstruction; Solar forcing of climate; Tree ring isotope climatology

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE;

CHAMAECYPARIS OBTUS; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GALACTIC COSMIC RAY; JAPAN; JAPANESE CEDAR; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAUNDER MINIMUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR ENERGY; TREE;

EID: 78650537592     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000113107     Document Type: Article

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