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Statistics of the AD Record of Climatic and Carbon Isotopic Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Minze Stuiver
Minze Stuiver*
Affiliation:
Quaternary Isotope Laboratory and Geological Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195
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Abstract

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The AD time series of Δ14C, δ13C, and cosmic ray fluxes, Q, were analyzed for similarities. Two cases of significant correlation between Q and tree-ring δ13C were encountered, for which up to 25% of the variance can be attributed to changes in the tree's isotope fractionation that related to solar induced climatic changes. However, it is possible that the demonstrated correlation is fortuitous because actual climate proxy records generally do not correlate significantly with the Q record.

Type
I. Natural 14C Variations
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 25 , Issue 2: 11th International Radiocarbon Conference , 1983 , pp. 219 - 228
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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