• DOI:10.1126/SCIENCE.1064363
Corpus ID: 1545207

Solar Forcing of Regional Climate Change During the Maunder Minimum

@article{Shindell2001SolarFO,
  title={Solar Forcing of Regional Climate Change During the Maunder Minimum},
  author={D. Shindell and G. Schmidt and M. E. Mann and D. Rind and A. Waple},
  journal={Science},
  year={2001},
  volume={294},
  pages={2149 - 2152}
}

D. Shindell, G. Schmidt, +2 authors A. Waple

Published 2001

Environmental Science, Medicine

Science

We examine the climate response to solar irradiance changes between the late 17th-century Maunder Minimum and the late 18th century. Global average temperature changes are small (about 0.3° to 0.4°C) in both a climate model and empirical reconstructions. However, regional temperature changes are quite large. In the model, these occur primarily through a forced shift toward the low index state of the Arctic Oscillation/North Atlantic Oscillation as solar irradiance decreases. This leads to… CONTINUE READING

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