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Has the Sun’s Output Really Changed Significantly Since the Little Ice Age?

Has the Sun’s Output Really Changed Significantly Since the Little Ice Age?. Leif Svalgaard Stanford University, CA, USA leif@leif.org http://www.leif.org/research. Troms ø, Norway, May 27, 2010. Was the Little Ice Age Global?. Sun that gives all things birth

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Has the Sun’s Output Really Changed Significantly Since the Little Ice Age?

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  1. Has the Sun’s Output Really Changed Significantly Since the Little Ice Age? Leif Svalgaard Stanford University, CA, USA leif@leif.org http://www.leif.org/research Tromsø, Norway, May 27, 2010

  2. Was the Little Ice Age Global? Sun that gives all things birth Shine on everything on earth! If that's too much to demand Shine at least on this our land If even that's too much for thee Shine at any rate on me Piet Hein (Danish Poet, 1905-1996)

  3. Craig Loehle: Global TemperatureReconstruction [non-tree ring]. Range ~1ºC Little Ice Age Medieval Warm Period

  4. Total Solar Irradiance, TSI Global Heat Flow dT/T = ¼ dS/S; dS/S = 1% dT = 0.25%T ~ 1ºC When Jack Eddy Proposed a Connection Between the Maunder Minimum and the LIA it was thought that dS/S of 1% was a possible variation (Abbot)

  5. Measurement of TSI by spacecraft 0.1% Annual Variation (due to variation of solar distance) is 70 times larger than solar cycle variation: Several cavities Solar activity

  6. Putting TSI variations in Perspective

  7. The ‘Solar Constant’ Adjusted for Variation of Distance to the Sun BTW: What is the ‘Distance’ to the ‘Sun’? Sphere, Size, Moon, … During the (avg.) 499 seconds of flight the distance changes…

  8. TSI is the combined effect of sunspot dimming and facular brightening (2x) Faculae are areas with significant magnetic fields near sunspots difference

  9. Degradation of Active Cavity Instruments due to Harsh Space Environment In an ideal world the ratio [or difference] between PMOD TSI (SOHO at L1) and SORCE TIM TSI (LEO) should be constant. This is not the case. The ratio PMOD/SORCE is slowly decreasing exponentially: Sometime in 2003 the azimuth drive of the high gain antenna (on SOHO) got stuck. The operations people were able to move to a position which was ok for most of the halo orbit (±30 degrees seen from Earth). As the antenna is locked at one azimuthal angle, SOHO is turned around its solar axis by 180 deg for the East or West legs of the orbit, respectively. So in this context, the ’keyhole’ is when low emission in the antenna pattern close to extremes of the halo orbit are encountered. The different orientation of the spacecraft may have thermal effects.

  10. Reconstructions of TSI often use the Sunspot Number [going back 400 years] Different series of sunspot numbers are in use, according to what fits your pet theory the best

  11. Early Reconstructions TSI ~ TSI0 +a·SSN + b·<SSN>11yr Now

  12. Solar Magnetic Field Heliospheric Magnetic Field Geomagnetic Activity:Centennial Secular Increase ? Aa-index and Method Wrong Lockwood et al., 1999

  13. HMF from Geomagnetism Now Then

  14. Historical Sunspot Number Records Probably Not Correct Morning Afternoon Current System in Ionosphere Created by UV Radiation Produces Diurnal Magnetic Effect at the Surface (1722)

  15. Even the Scientists that Advocated the Large Variation of TSI are Doubting that now

  16. So, Reconstructions of TSI are converging towards having no ‘background’

  17. Solar Activity Influences the Production of Radioactive Nuclides If we can understand the various processes involved it might be possible to reconstruct solar activity from the cosmogenic isotopes deposited in ice (10Be). If the 14C production varies, there will be a difference between the age calculated from the assumption of constant production and the age determined by other means [e.g. tree rings]

  18. 14C Age Differences Partly Due to Solar Activity Earth’s Field 200-yr running mean subtracted

  19. 10Be-based Reconstructions of Heliospheric Magnetic Field The ‘dips’ may be influenced by volcanic activity; Krakatoa, Tambora, Hekla. Or even by climate changes [circular argument?]

  20. Global Temp. Solar Output, TSI10Be and 14C-based reconstructions are largely in agreement LIA MWP +1 W/m2 +0.05ºC -1 W/m2 - 0.05ºC 10Be TSI, Steinhilber et al. 10Be 14C

  21. Conclusion • Variation in Solar Output is a Factor of Ten too Small to Account for The Little Ice Age, • Unless the Climate is Extraordinarily Sensitive to Very Small Changes, • But, Then the Phase (‘Line-Up of Wiggles’) is Not Right • Way Out: Sensitivity and Phases Vary Semi-Randomly on All Time Scales.

  22. Why Were There No Sunspots During the Maunder Minimum?

  23. When the Magnetic Field of a Sunspot Falls Below 1500 G, the Spot Becomes Invisible

  24. The F10.7 cm Microwave Flux Also Shows that Lately Sunspots are Harder to See

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