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Harmonic Analysis of Worldwide Temperature Proxies for 2000 Years



Horst-Joachim Lüdecke1, *, Carl-Otto Weiss2
1 HTW, University of Applied Sciences, Saarbrücken, Germany
2 CINVESTAV, Querétaro, Mexico; visiting from PTB Braunschweig, Mexico, Germany

Abstract

The Sun as climate driver is repeatedly discussed in the literature but proofs are often weak. In order to elucidate the solar influence, we have used a large number of temperature proxies worldwide to construct a global temperature mean G7 over the last 2000 years. The Fourier spectrum of G7 shows the strongest components as ~1000-, ~460-, and ~190 - year periods whereas other cycles of the individual proxies are considerably weaker. The G7 temperature extrema coincide with the Roman, medieval, and present optima as well as the well-known minimum of AD 1450 during the Little Ice Age. We have constructed by reverse Fourier transform a representation of G7 using only these three sine functions, which shows a remarkable Pearson correlation of 0.84 with the 31-year running average of G7. The three cycles are also found dominant in the production rates of the solar-induced cosmogenic nuclides 14C and 10Be, most strongly in the ~190 - year period being known as the De Vries/Suess cycle. By wavelet analysis, a new proof has been provided that at least the ~190-year climate cycle has a solar origin.

Keywords: Worldwide temperature proxies, Solar-climate cycles, Solar origin of the ~190 year climate cycle with new accuracy.


Article Information


Identifiers and Pagination:

Year: 2017
Volume: 11
First Page: 44
Last Page: 53
Publisher Id: TOASCJ-11-44
DOI: 10.2174/1874282301711010044

Article History:

Received Date: 20/10/2016
Revision Received Date: 22/04/2017
Acceptance Date: 27/04/2017
Electronic publication date: 30/06/2017
Collection year: 2017

© 2017 Lüdecke and Weiss.

open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.


* Address correspondence to this author at the HTW, University of Applied Sciences, Saarbrücken, Germany, Tel: 0049-6221-781052; E-mail: moluedecke@t-online.de





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All climate-cycle investigations mentioned relate to local climate. In contrast to these, in the present work, we have investigated dominant cycles in worldwide temperature proxy data of the last 2000 years complemented by instrumental temperature measurements of global temperatures provided by HADCRUT4 [50Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia. Data available at https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/ 2017. (last access: April)], from AD 1850 onwards, and by RSS satellite data [51Remote Sensing System (USA). Data available at http://www.remss.com/measurements/upper-air-temperature 2017. (last access: April).], from AD 1979 onwards.

Records of the cosmic isotopes 14C and 10Be found in tree rings and ice cores confirm that the magnetic field of the Sun had varied over distinct cycles in the past [14Steinhilber F, Beer J. Prediction of solar activity for the next 500 years. J Geophys Res-Space 2013; 118: 1861-7.
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The Data

We used paleotemperature reconstructions and instrumental temperature records for the construction of a global temperature record from AD 1 to AD 2015. For sufficient resolution of the Fourier analysis and to avoid possible distortions by interpolations, temperature reconstructions of 1-year time resolution are desirable. Unfortunately, these conditions are not generally given. As suitable records, we selected the instrumental global HADCRUT4 data [50Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia. Data available at https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/ 2017. (last access: April)] from 1850 to 2015 AD, the global RSS satellite temperature data [51Remote Sensing System (USA). Data available at http://www.remss.com/measurements/upper-air-temperature 2017. (last access: April).] from 1979 to 2015 AD, and the following six paleotemperature reconstructions - their individual sites shown in Fig. (1).

Fig. (1)
(Color online) Locations of the proxy-temperature records used. Green color indicates tree-rings, blue ice-cores, red speleothems, magenta sediments, and black others.


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All used records are temperature reconstructions. Thus no further data aggregation or formatting procedures were necessary. We constructed from the individual temperature reconstructions a global mean G7 as follows: Each reconstruction was normalized to an anomaly around the year 1950, thereby allowing for different mean temperatures at different latitudes. The satellite data beginning in 1979 were adjusted to the 1979 HADCRUT4 data.

Years before AD 1 in the reconstructions were omitted. For Bün, HADCRUT4 and Pet respectively the most recent years which show unusual deviations from the remaining reconstructions were also omitted. Next, for every year from AD 1 to AD 2015 the mean of these reconstructions which covered this particular year yields the pertinent temperature of G7. After that, G7, covering AD 1 to 2015, was again adjusted to an anomaly around its mean. Table 1 gives an overview of the data. The left panels of Fig. (2) show all reconstructions and G7 for the times specified in column “RL” of Table (1) (HADCRUT4 and RSS are not shown). G7 in more detail is depicted in the upper panel of Fig. (3) in grey and its 31-year running mean in blue color.

Table 1
Data details. All records are proxy-temperatures [°C], except for Stei as the common production rate PC of the cosmogenic nuclides 14C and 10Be. BC/AD: length of the original record; RL: record length applied for constructing G7; Res.: Time resolution.


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SPECTRAL ANALYSIS

For the discrete Fourier transformation, the individual reconstructions, converted to anomalies around the mean, were padded with 25,000 zeros to yield interpolation of the spectra. The false-alarm levels for the spectra were generated by Monte Carlo simulation, in each case with 10,000 random time series of identical length, anomaly around the mean, Hurst exponent and zero padding as the pertinent record. The Hurst exponents were obtained by detrended fluctuation analysis [59Kantelhardt JW, Koscielny-Bunde E, Rego HH, Havlin S, Bunde A. Detecting long-range correlations with detrended fluctuation analysis. Physica A 2001; 295: 441-54.
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]. Since this method yields the same results as the Fourier analysis of the records interpolated to one year steps, the Fourier analyses and the following wavelet analyses were carried out with the interpolated records. The right panels of Fig. (2) show the results of the spectral analyses.

For the longest records Pet [2Petit JR, Jouzel J, Raynaud D, et al. Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica. Nature 1999; 399: 429-36. Data available at ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/icecore/antarctica/vostok/deutnat.txt 2017. Last access: April 2017] and Stei [21Steinhilber F, Abreu JA, Beer J, et al. 9,400 years of cosmic radiation and solar activity from ice cores and tree rings. P Natl Acad Sci USA 2012; 109: 5967-71. Data available at: ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/climate_forcing/solar_variability/steinhilber2012.txt (last access: April 2017).] wavelet analyses were applied and are shown in the two upper panels of Fig. (4). Wavelets give insight into the link of solar activity with Earth temperatures as described in the section “Sun's activity and climate”.

Fig. (2)
(Color online) Left panels: Temperature records [oC] as anomalies around the mean, of Chr, Bün, McK, Vill-N, Vill-S, Pet, and the composite global record G7. The record of common production rate PC of the cosmogenic nuclides 14C and 10Be, Stei, is depicted in panel row 4, column 2. Right panels: Pertinent Fourier spectra with false-alarm lines of 95% (green) and 99% (red). The period of the strongest peak (generally ~190 year) is given.


RESULTS

Table 2 gives the periods corresponding to the strongest peaks of the spectra shown on the right hand side of Fig. (2).

Table 2
Strongest spectral peaks for the records Chr, Bün, McK, Vill-N, Vill-S, Pet, G7, and Stei for periods > 700 years, from 700 to 300 years, from 300 to 100 years, and < 100 years.


There are substantial variations in the frequencies of obviously pertinent peaks in different records. Even for the same proxy (tree-rings) and sites apart by 2000 km, the ~190 - year period peaks of Vill-N and Vill-S differ by 12 years in period. Because we found no explanation for such differences in the literature we think that data noise is most likely the main cause of the deviations. As an attempt to test this assumption, we shortened the Bün record (total length 2503 years) in several steps to a minimum length of 1600 years. In the Fourier analyses of the shortened records we found values from 1250 to 1047 for the ~1000 - year period, from 608 to 408 for the ~460 - year period, and from 186 to 181 for the ~190 - year period. The averaging of a large number of data as used here can be expected to minimize the impact of such data inaccuracy.

The spectrum of the composite global record G7 has - much more distinctly than the individual records, likely due to the averaging - the strongest peaks for the periods of 1003, 463, and 188 years. In particular, in the low frequency region practically no other peaks are visible. For the inverse Fourier transformation we used the mentioned longest three periods to obtain a representation of G7 with only three sine functions. These three cycles are already known from previous studies as cited in the section “Introduction/Overview”. This insures that the selected cycles are not artifacts of the Fourier transformation.

The upper panel of Fig. (3) shows the original G7 (grey), the 31-year running mean of G7 (blue) corresponding to the definition of “climate”, and the sine representation of G7 (green). Tentatively, we also constructed the representation with four sines including the ~60-year period (red).

Fig. (3)
(Color online) Upper panel: Global record G7 (grey), running 31-year average of G7 (blue), sine representation of G7 with three sine functions of the periods 1003, 463, and 188 years (green), with four sine functions including the period ~60 years (red), continued to AD 2200. The parameters of the sine functions are given in Table 3. The Pearson correlation between the 31 year running average of G7 and the three-sine representation (green) is 0.84, for the four-sine representation (red) 0.85. Lower panel: G7 (grey) together with the sine functions of 1003, 463, and 188 - year periods continued until AD 2200 (equal sine amplitudes for clarity).


The Pearson correlation of G7 and the three-sine representation is 0.65, while that with the 31-year running mean of G7 is remarkable 0.84. A four-sine representation which includes the ~60-year cycle improves this correlation only to 0.85. The ~60-year cycle is, however, important for shorter time studies. e.g. Gervais [17Gervais F. Anthropogenic CO2 warming challenged by 60-year cycle. Earth Sci Rev 2016; 155: 129-35.
[http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2016.02.005]
] shows that the ~60-year cycle explains the temperature plateau observed since the end of the 20th century.

The sine representation is continued in Fig. (3) until AD 2200 for future climate trends. It shows a drop from the present maximum to AD ~2050, a slight rise until AD ~2130 and a second drop to AD 2200. Babich et al. [15Babich VV, Darin AV, Kalugin IA, Snolyaninova LG. Climate prediction for the extratropical northern hemisphere for the next 500 years based on periodic natural processes. Russ Meteorol Hydrol 2016; 41(9): 593-600.
[http://dx.doi.org/10.3103/S1068373916090016]
] come to similar conclusions.

The lower panel of Fig. (3) shows G7 (grey) together with the three sines of 1003, 463, and 188 - year periods of the representation (sine of ~60 years not shown). We emphasize that all three sines have maxima near AD 0, 1000, and 2000. (Table 3) cites the parameters of the sine representation.

Table 3
Representation of G7 by sine functions S = A∙sin (2πf∙(yr - 1)+φ) , f - frequency, p - period, A - amplitude (amplitudes multiplied with a common arbitrary factor for clarity of Fig. 3, φ- phase in radians.


Sun's Activity and Climate

Table (2) demonstrates that Stei [21Steinhilber F, Abreu JA, Beer J, et al. 9,400 years of cosmic radiation and solar activity from ice cores and tree rings. P Natl Acad Sci USA 2012; 109: 5967-71. Data available at: ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/climate_forcing/solar_variability/steinhilber2012.txt (last access: April 2017).] as the record mirroring the Sun's activity shows the same periods of ~1000, ~500, and ~200 years as found for the temperature record G7, suggesting the Sun as the main climate driver. This hypothesis is often emphasized in the literature (see references under “Introduction/Overview”). However, comparable periods alone would not to be sufficient for excluding autogenous climate mechanisms.

To get more insight on a solar link with climate cycles we compared by wavelet analysis the temperatures of Pet [2Petit JR, Jouzel J, Raynaud D, et al. Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica. Nature 1999; 399: 429-36. Data available at ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/icecore/antarctica/vostok/deutnat.txt 2017. Last access: April 2017] with the production rate of the cosmogenic nuclides 14C and 10Be of Stei [21Steinhilber F, Abreu JA, Beer J, et al. 9,400 years of cosmic radiation and solar activity from ice cores and tree rings. P Natl Acad Sci USA 2012; 109: 5967-71. Data available at: ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/climate_forcing/solar_variability/steinhilber2012.txt (last access: April 2017).] over 9000 years (see Table 1. and Fig. 2). The upper and middle panel of Fig. (4) show already by eyesight similarities in the power of the ~190 - year period over 9000 years, thus confirming earlier findings of Knudsen et al. [13Knudsen MF, Jacobsen BH, Riisager P, Olsen J, Seidenkrantz M-S. Evidence of Suess solar-cycle bursts in subtropical Holocene speleothem δ18O records. Holocene 2011; 22: 597-602.
[http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683611427331]
].

Fig. (4)
(Color online) Upper panel: Wavelet spectrum of Antarctic temperatures Pet [2Petit JR, Jouzel J, Raynaud D, et al. Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica. Nature 1999; 399: 429-36. Data available at ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/icecore/antarctica/vostok/deutnat.txt 2017. Last access: April 2017]. Middle panel: Wavelet spectrum of solar activity Stei [21Steinhilber F, Abreu JA, Beer J, et al. 9,400 years of cosmic radiation and solar activity from ice cores and tree rings. P Natl Acad Sci USA 2012; 109: 5967-71. Data available at: ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/climate_forcing/solar_variability/steinhilber2012.txt (last access: April 2017).]. Below the cone of influence, wavelet results are not significant. Lower panel: Spectral power for the period of ~190 years taken from the two wavelet spectra, powers in arbitrary units.


Next, we extracted from the wavelet spectra the power of the frequency component of the ~190 - year period both for Pet [2Petit JR, Jouzel J, Raynaud D, et al. Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica. Nature 1999; 399: 429-36. Data available at ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/icecore/antarctica/vostok/deutnat.txt 2017. Last access: April 2017] and Stei [21Steinhilber F, Abreu JA, Beer J, et al. 9,400 years of cosmic radiation and solar activity from ice cores and tree rings. P Natl Acad Sci USA 2012; 109: 5967-71. Data available at: ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/climate_forcing/solar_variability/steinhilber2012.txt (last access: April 2017).]. Fig. (4) shows these power curves in the lower panel. There is good agreement from -7000 until -5000 BC and from -1000 BC until present. In between these times similarities still exist. This signature would seem strong enough to confirm the Sun as the main driver of at least the ~190 - year climate cycle. For the periods of ~1000 and ~460 years we could not find a similar power agreement between Stei and Pet.

DISCUSSION / CONCLUSION

The Fourier spectrum of a global temperature record G7, composed of high quality temperature proxies worldwide and recent instrumental data demonstrate the dominance of three climate cycles with ~1000 (Eddy cycle), ~460 (not named but frequently reported), and ~190 year periods (De Vries/Suess cycle). These three sines represent the 31-year running mean of G7 with the remarkable Pearson correlation of 0.84 indicating their importance for climate.

G7, and likewise the sine representations have maxima of comparable size at AD 0, 1000, and 2000. We note that the temperature increase of the late 19th and 20th century is represented by the harmonic temperature representation, and thus is of pure multiperiodic nature. It can be expected that the periodicity of G7, lasting 2000 years so far, will persist also for the foreseeable future. It predicts a temperature drop from present to AD 2050, a slight rise from 2050 to 2130, and a further drop from AD 2130 to 2200 (see Fig. 3), upper panel, green and red curves).

As a main result of our study, the construction of a global record G7 from numerous temperature proxies reduces noise and thus allows the isolation of these global cycles. The dominance of the significant frequency components in the G7 spectrum, as opposed to the strength of other components in the spectra of the individual proxy records supports this view.

We provide a new confirmation for the link between solar activity and climate cycles by wavelet analysis showing a remarkably good agreement of the power of the ~190 - year period for temperatures and solar activity over 9000 years (see Fig. 4 lower panel). As (Fig. 2 and Table 2) show, the periods of ~1000 and ~460 years are also apparently common in records of temperatures and cosmogenic nuclides.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The authors declare no conflict of interest, financial or otherwise.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We express our thanks to the referees for valuable comments.

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"Open access journals represent a major break-through in publishing. They provide easy access to the latest research on a wide variety of issues. Relevant and timely articles are made available in a fraction of the time taken by more conventional publishers. Articles are of uniformly high quality and written by the world's leading authorities."


Robert Looney
(Naval Postgraduate School, USA)

"Open access journals have transformed the way scientific data is published and disseminated: particularly, whilst ensuring a high quality standard and transparency in the editorial process, they have increased the access to the scientific literature by those researchers that have limited library support or that are working on small budgets."


Richard Reithinger
(Westat, USA)

"Not only do open access journals greatly improve the access to high quality information for scientists in the developing world, it also provides extra exposure for our papers."


J. Ferwerda
(University of Oxford, UK)

"Open Access 'Chemistry' Journals allow the dissemination of knowledge at your finger tips without paying for the scientific content."


Sean L. Kitson
(Almac Sciences, Northern Ireland)

"In principle, all scientific journals should have open access, as should be science itself. Open access journals are very helpful for students, researchers and the general public including people from institutions which do not have library or cannot afford to subscribe scientific journals. The articles are high standard and cover a wide area."


Hubert Wolterbeek
(Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

"The widest possible diffusion of information is critical for the advancement of science. In this perspective, open access journals are instrumental in fostering researches and achievements."


Alessandro Laviano
(Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy)

"Open access journals are very useful for all scientists as they can have quick information in the different fields of science."


Philippe Hernigou
(Paris University, France)

"There are many scientists who can not afford the rather expensive subscriptions to scientific journals. Open access journals offer a good alternative for free access to good quality scientific information."


Fidel Toldrá
(Instituto de Agroquimica y Tecnologia de Alimentos, Spain)

"Open access journals have become a fundamental tool for students, researchers, patients and the general public. Many people from institutions which do not have library or cannot afford to subscribe scientific journals benefit of them on a daily basis. The articles are among the best and cover most scientific areas."


M. Bendandi
(University Clinic of Navarre, Spain)

"These journals provide researchers with a platform for rapid, open access scientific communication. The articles are of high quality and broad scope."


Peter Chiba
(University of Vienna, Austria)

"Open access journals are probably one of the most important contributions to promote and diffuse science worldwide."


Jaime Sampaio
(University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal)

"Open access journals make up a new and rather revolutionary way to scientific publication. This option opens several quite interesting possibilities to disseminate openly and freely new knowledge and even to facilitate interpersonal communication among scientists."


Eduardo A. Castro
(INIFTA, Argentina)

"Open access journals are freely available online throughout the world, for you to read, download, copy, distribute, and use. The articles published in the open access journals are high quality and cover a wide range of fields."


Kenji Hashimoto
(Chiba University, Japan)

"Open Access journals offer an innovative and efficient way of publication for academics and professionals in a wide range of disciplines. The papers published are of high quality after rigorous peer review and they are Indexed in: major international databases. I read Open Access journals to keep abreast of the recent development in my field of study."


Daniel Shek
(Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

"It is a modern trend for publishers to establish open access journals. Researchers, faculty members, and students will be greatly benefited by the new journals of Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. in this category."


Jih Ru Hwu
(National Central University, Taiwan)


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