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Solar Activity and Climate Change at the End of the Ice Age and Transition to the Holocene

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The heliospheric modulation potential is reconstructed for the period from 12 000 to 8000 BC based on the content of the cosmogenic isotope 10Be in layers of the GISP2 ice core of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The results are compared with the heliospheric modulation potential reconstructed earlier from radiocarbon data and with data on climate change. In particular, we show that the cooling during the Younger Dryas (~10 700–9700 BC) may have caused by low solar activity. Two periods of high solar activity are distinguished at the early Holocene, near 9600–9400 and 8900–8400 BC, which indicates the possible effect of variations in the solar activity on the Earth’s climate change.

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The work was partly supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project nos. 18-02-00583 and 19-02-00088).

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  1. Ioffe Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 194021, St. Petersburg, Russia

    I. V. Kudryavtsev & V. A. Dergachev

  2. Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo, Russian Academy of Sciences, 196140, St. Petersburg, Russia

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Kudryavtsev, I.V., Dergachev, V.A. Solar Activity and Climate Change at the End of the Ice Age and Transition to the Holocene. Geomagn. Aeron. 61, 1057–1062 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793221070124

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