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Cosmogenic radionuclides are more and more used in solar activity reconstructions. However, the cosmogenic radionuclide signal also contains a climate component. It is therefore crucial to eliminate the climate information to allow a better interpretation of the reconstructed solar activity indices. In this paper the method of principal components is applied to 10Be data from two ice cores from opposite hemispheres as well as to 14C data from tree rings. The analysis shows that these records are dominated by a common signal which explains about 80% of the variance on multi decadal to multi millennial time scales, reflecting their common production rate. The second and third components are significantly different for 14C and 10Be. They are interpreted as system effects introduced by the transport of 10Be and 14C from the atmosphere where they are produced to the respective natural archives where they are stored. Principal component analysis improves significantly extraction of the production signal from the cosmogenic isotope data series, which is more appropriate for astrophysical and terrestrial studies.
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The effect of the Earth’s magnetic field, can be removed by taking into account paleorecords of the geomagnetic field and production calculations (Masarik and Beer 2009).
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This work was financially supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, and NCCR Climate–Swiss climate research.
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Abreu, J.A., Beer, J., Steinhilber, F. et al. 10Be in Ice Cores and 14C in Tree Rings: Separation of Production and Climate Effects. Space Sci Rev 176, 343–349 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-011-9864-y
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