Short-Term Variations in Radiocarbon Concentration with the 11-Year Solar Cycle

1 January 1983

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Radiocarbon

Vol. 25 (2) , 259-266
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200005555

Abstract

Previous investigations on short-term ¹⁴C variations in tree rings are compared with ¹⁴C measurements in wine samples. The comparison is made for 4 solar cycles (1903–1944) with the same method of statistical evaluation of measured results. The average amplitude of Δ¹⁴C variations as observed by various authors in tree-ring samples is ca 2 ± 1 ‰; however, wine samples show an average amplitude of 4.3 ± 1.6 ‰. The anticorrelation dependence of Δ¹⁴C on Wolf sunspot numbers was observed with a time shift between W maxima and Δ¹⁴C minima of 3–5 yr for different solar cycles.

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