Trends in solar variability

Abstract

Radiocarbon (delta C-14) records suggest a 200-year periodicity in solar activity in the last millennium. Researchers examined the Carbon-14 record going back 8 millennia for this and other periodicities. The computation differs from that in most previous work in its use of techniques developed for unevenly spaced sampling without rebinning the data to equally spaced intervals. A variation with a 200-year period is a strong feature of the Carbon-14 record going back several millennia. Periodicities that appear to be significant are listed and their physical interpretation discussed.