Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE

Despite their extensive use, the absolute dating of tree-ring chronologies has not hitherto been independently validated at the global scale. Here, the identification of distinct 14C excursions in 484 individual tree rings, enable the authors to confirm the dating of 44 dendrochronologies from five...

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Main Authors: Ulf Büntgen, Lukas Wacker, J. Diego Galván, Stephanie Arnold, Dominique Arseneault, Michael Baillie, Jürg Beer, Mauro Bernabei, Niels Bleicher, Gretel Boswijk, Achim Bräuning, Marco Carrer, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Paolo Cherubini, Marcus Christl, Duncan A. Christie, Peter W. Clark, Edward R. Cook, Rosanne D’Arrigo, Nicole Davi, Ólafur Eggertsson, Jan Esper, Anthony M. Fowler, Ze’ev Gedalof, Fabio Gennaretti, Jussi Grießinger, Henri Grissino-Mayer, Håkan Grudd, Björn E. Gunnarson, Rashit Hantemirov, Franz Herzig, Amy Hessl, Karl-Uwe Heussner, A. J. Timothy Jull, Vladimir Kukarskih, Alexander Kirdyanov, Tomáš Kolář, Paul J. Krusic, Tomáš Kyncl, Antonio Lara, Carlos LeQuesne, Hans W. Linderholm, Neil J. Loader, Brian Luckman, Fusa Miyake, Vladimir S. Myglan, Kurt Nicolussi, Clive Oppenheimer, Jonathan Palmer, Irina Panyushkina, Neil Pederson, Michal Rybníček, Fritz H. Schweingruber, Andrea Seim, Michael Sigl, Olga Churakova (Sidorova), James H. Speer, Hans-Arno Synal, Willy Tegel, Kerstin Treydte, Ricardo Villalba, Greg Wiles, Rob Wilson, Lawrence J. Winship, Jan Wunder, Bao Yang, Giles H. F. Young
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Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06036-0
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Lukas Wacker
J. Diego Galván
Stephanie Arnold
Dominique Arseneault
Michael Baillie
Jürg Beer
Mauro Bernabei
Niels Bleicher
Gretel Boswijk
Achim Bräuning
Marco Carrer
Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist
Paolo Cherubini
Marcus Christl
Duncan A. Christie
Peter W. Clark
Edward R. Cook
Rosanne D’Arrigo
Nicole Davi
Ólafur Eggertsson
Jan Esper
Anthony M. Fowler
Ze’ev Gedalof
Fabio Gennaretti
Jussi Grießinger
Henri Grissino-Mayer
Håkan Grudd
Björn E. Gunnarson
Rashit Hantemirov
Franz Herzig
Amy Hessl
Karl-Uwe Heussner
A. J. Timothy Jull
Vladimir Kukarskih
Alexander Kirdyanov
Tomáš Kolář
Paul J. Krusic
Tomáš Kyncl
Antonio Lara
Carlos LeQuesne
Hans W. Linderholm
Neil J. Loader
Brian Luckman
Fusa Miyake
Vladimir S. Myglan
Kurt Nicolussi
Clive Oppenheimer
Jonathan Palmer
Irina Panyushkina
Neil Pederson
Michal Rybníček
Fritz H. Schweingruber
Andrea Seim
Michael Sigl
Olga Churakova (Sidorova)
James H. Speer
Hans-Arno Synal
Willy Tegel
Kerstin Treydte
Ricardo Villalba
Greg Wiles
Rob Wilson
Lawrence J. Winship
Jan Wunder
Bao Yang
Giles H. F. Young
spellingShingle Ulf Büntgen
Lukas Wacker
J. Diego Galván
Stephanie Arnold
Dominique Arseneault
Michael Baillie
Jürg Beer
Mauro Bernabei
Niels Bleicher
Gretel Boswijk
Achim Bräuning
Marco Carrer
Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist
Paolo Cherubini
Marcus Christl
Duncan A. Christie
Peter W. Clark
Edward R. Cook
Rosanne D’Arrigo
Nicole Davi
Ólafur Eggertsson
Jan Esper
Anthony M. Fowler
Ze’ev Gedalof
Fabio Gennaretti
Jussi Grießinger
Henri Grissino-Mayer
Håkan Grudd
Björn E. Gunnarson
Rashit Hantemirov
Franz Herzig
Amy Hessl
Karl-Uwe Heussner
A. J. Timothy Jull
Vladimir Kukarskih
Alexander Kirdyanov
Tomáš Kolář
Paul J. Krusic
Tomáš Kyncl
Antonio Lara
Carlos LeQuesne
Hans W. Linderholm
Neil J. Loader
Brian Luckman
Fusa Miyake
Vladimir S. Myglan
Kurt Nicolussi
Clive Oppenheimer
Jonathan Palmer
Irina Panyushkina
Neil Pederson
Michal Rybníček
Fritz H. Schweingruber
Andrea Seim
Michael Sigl
Olga Churakova (Sidorova)
James H. Speer
Hans-Arno Synal
Willy Tegel
Kerstin Treydte
Ricardo Villalba
Greg Wiles
Rob Wilson
Lawrence J. Winship
Jan Wunder
Bao Yang
Giles H. F. Young
Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE
Nature Communications
author_facet Ulf Büntgen
Lukas Wacker
J. Diego Galván
Stephanie Arnold
Dominique Arseneault
Michael Baillie
Jürg Beer
Mauro Bernabei
Niels Bleicher
Gretel Boswijk
Achim Bräuning
Marco Carrer
Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist
Paolo Cherubini
Marcus Christl
Duncan A. Christie
Peter W. Clark
Edward R. Cook
Rosanne D’Arrigo
Nicole Davi
Ólafur Eggertsson
Jan Esper
Anthony M. Fowler
Ze’ev Gedalof
Fabio Gennaretti
Jussi Grießinger
Henri Grissino-Mayer
Håkan Grudd
Björn E. Gunnarson
Rashit Hantemirov
Franz Herzig
Amy Hessl
Karl-Uwe Heussner
A. J. Timothy Jull
Vladimir Kukarskih
Alexander Kirdyanov
Tomáš Kolář
Paul J. Krusic
Tomáš Kyncl
Antonio Lara
Carlos LeQuesne
Hans W. Linderholm
Neil J. Loader
Brian Luckman
Fusa Miyake
Vladimir S. Myglan
Kurt Nicolussi
Clive Oppenheimer
Jonathan Palmer
Irina Panyushkina
Neil Pederson
Michal Rybníček
Fritz H. Schweingruber
Andrea Seim
Michael Sigl
Olga Churakova (Sidorova)
James H. Speer
Hans-Arno Synal
Willy Tegel
Kerstin Treydte
Ricardo Villalba
Greg Wiles
Rob Wilson
Lawrence J. Winship
Jan Wunder
Bao Yang
Giles H. F. Young
author_sort Ulf Büntgen
title Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE
title_short Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE
title_full Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE
title_fullStr Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE
title_full_unstemmed Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE
title_sort tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 ce
publisher Nature Publishing Group
series Nature Communications
issn 2041-1723
publishDate 2018-09-01
description Despite their extensive use, the absolute dating of tree-ring chronologies has not hitherto been independently validated at the global scale. Here, the identification of distinct 14C excursions in 484 individual tree rings, enable the authors to confirm the dating of 44 dendrochronologies from five continents.
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06036-0
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Here, the identification of distinct 14C excursions in 484 individual tree rings, enable the authors to confirm the dating of 44 dendrochronologies from five continents.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06036-0