The Solar Cycle and Terrestrial Aridity

位于布法罗的OPP-9711609 RAM，Michael SUNY这项研究项目将利用格陵兰冰盖计划2(GISP2)冰芯来寻找太阳黑子11年周期的证据。初步结果表明，GISP2冰芯中的一些尘埃已经被全球大气环流输送到格陵兰岛的顶端，并并入冰盖。这些结果表明，太阳黑子周期存在于核心的较老部分，调查者将确定在过去几百年中，当有太阳黑子活动波动的历史观测记录时，是否可以识别出同样的周期。研究人员将研究中国(可能是尘埃的来源)干旱加剧与太阳黑子周期的关系，以确定太阳活动的波动是否可能导致沙漠大小或风速/方向的变化。因此，该项目对研究太阳活动对大陆环境的影响具有重要意义。

ABSTRACT OPP-9711609 RAM, MICHAEL SUNY at Buffalo This research project will utilize the Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two (GISP2) ice core to look for evidence of an eleven-year sunspot cycle. Preliminary results indicate that some of the GISP2 ice core contains dust that has been transported by global atmospheric circulation to the summit of Greenland and incorporated into the ice sheet. Those results show that a sunspot cycle exists in an older section of the core and the investigator will determine if the same cycle can be identified in the past few hundred years when there is a historical, observational record of fluctuating sunspot activity. The investigator will examine the relationship of increased aridity in China (the likely source of the dust) with the sunspot cycle to determine if fluctuations in solar activity may be responsible for changes either in desert size or wind speed/direction. Therefore, this project has important implications for the impact of solar activity on continental environments.