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Sun‐coupled climate connection between eastern Asia and northern Atlantic
Author(s) -
Tan Ming,
Hou Juzhi,
Liu Tungsheng
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2003gl019085
Subject(s) - stalagmite , climatology , solar irradiance , geology , holocene , centennial , temperature record , paleoclimatology , climate change , atmospheric sciences , geography , oceanography , archaeology
Few of annually resolved proxy temperature records are reported to coincide with centennial‐to‐millennial‐scale solar oscillations. Here we show that the warm season temperature inferred from the layer thickness of a stalagmite from Beijing in Eastern Asia is consistent with oscillations in total solar irradiance inferred from cosmogenic 10 Be and 14 C. On the other hand, this climate record is remarkably consistent with Northern Atlantic drift ice cycles that were identified to be controlled by the sun through the entire Holocene. The synchronism between the two independent sun‐linked climate records therefore suggests that the sun may directly couple hemispherical climate changes on centennial to millennial scales.