Scaling Properties and Persistence of Long-Term Solar Activity

• Published in: Atmosphere
• Main Authors: Fabio Lepreti, Vincenzo Carbone, Antonio Vecchio
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021
• Subjects: solar activity; long-range correlations; scaling laws; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; Greenland; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12060733; https://doaj.org/article/df5d8f8e90f54a3995f347782ec2499c

The long-range correlations associated with the presence of persistence are investigated by applying the detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) on three different proxies of long-term solar activity. The considered datasets are a sunspot number reconstruction (SNR04) obtained from the atmospheric activity of the cosmogenic isotope <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mrow></mrow><mn>14</mn></msup></semantics></math> C derived from tree rings, a total solar irradiance reconstruction (TSIR12) obtained from several <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mrow></mrow><mn>10</mn></msup></semantics></math> Be ice core records from Greenland and Antarctica in combination with the global record of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mrow></mrow><mn>14</mn></msup></semantics></math> C in tree rings and a new multi-proxy sunspot number reconstruction (SNR18), also derived from <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mrow></mrow><mn>10</mn></msup></semantics></math> Be datasets and the global <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mrow></mrow><mn>14</mn></msup></semantics></math> C production series. The DFA scaling exponents found for the three time series are similar (lying in the range between 0.70 and 0.77) and the scaling ranges are comparable. These results indicate the presence of long-range correlations with persistence, in substantial agreement with the findings of previous studies carried out on other solar activity indices and proxies.