How unusual is today's solar activity?

Raimund Muscheler (), Fortunat Joos, Simon A. Müller and Ian Snowball
Additional contact information
Raimund Muscheler: National Center for Atmospheric Research, Paleoclimatology
Fortunat Joos: Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern
Simon A. Müller: Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern
Ian Snowball: GeoBiosphere Science Centre, Quaternary Sciences, Lund University

Nature, 2005, vol. 436, issue 7050, E3-E4

Abstract: Abstract Arising from: S. K. Solanki, I. G. Usoskin, B. Kromer, M. Schüssler & J. Beer Nature 431, 1084–1087 (2004); Solanki et al. reply . To put global warming into context requires knowledge about past changes in solar activity and the role of the Sun in climate change. Solanki et al.1 propose that solar activity during recent decades was exceptionally high compared with that over the preceding 8,000 years. However, our extended analysis of the radiocarbon record reveals several periods during past centuries in which the strength of the magnetic field in the solar wind was similar to, or even higher than, that of today.

Date: 2005
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature04045 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:436:y:2005:i:7050:d:10.1038_nature04045

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/nature04045

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().