Lengths of Schwabe cycles in the seventh and eighth centuries indicated by precise measurement of carbon-14 content in tree rings

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 7483-7487

  Miyake, Fusa ^a   Masuda, Kimiaki ^a   Nakamura, Toshio ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cosmogenic nuclide; solar cycle; tree ring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892518188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2012JA018320     Document Type: Article

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