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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Pavel Povinec
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Physics Comenius University, 842 15 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
A A Burchuladze
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Physics, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, USSR
S V Pagava
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Physics, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, USSR
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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.

Type
I. Natural 14C Variations
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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