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Science 7 December 2001:
Vol. 294. no. 5549, pp. 2149 - 2152
DOI: 10.1126/science.1064363
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Solar Forcing of Regional Climate Change During the Maunder Minimum

Drew T. Shindell,1 Gavin A. Schmidt,1 Michael E. Mann,2 David Rind,1 Anne Waple3

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 colder temperatures over the Northern Hemisphere continents, especially in winter (1° to 2°C), in agreement with historical records and proxy data for surface temperatures.

1 NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, New York, NY 10025, USA.
2 Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA.
3 Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA

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