Eleanna Asvestari, Mrs. - MSc
ReSoLVE Centre of Excellence, University of Oulu, Finland
       
       
Session 4 - Poster

Semi-empirical long-term reconstruction of the heliospheric parameters validated by cosmogenic radionuclide records

E. Asvestari (1), I. G. Usoskin (1,2), N. A. Krivova (3), R. H. Cameron (3), 1:ReSoLVE Centre of Excellence, University of Oulu, Finland, 2: Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, University of Oulu, Finland, 3: Max-Planck-institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Göttingen, Germany
       

We develop a semi-empirical model describing the heliospheric modulation of galactic cosmic rays in terms of different heliospheric parameters such as the heliospheric current sheet tilt angle, the open solar magnetic flux and the polarity of the large scale solar magnetic field. This model is an improvement of a previous similar model by Alanko-Huotari et al. (2006). The parameters are fitted using the observations and reconstructions of the heliospheric parameters for the period 1976 - 2013, which includes the latest very weak solar minimum. The modulation potential is reconstructed since 1610 using this model and different reconstructions of the open solar magnetic flux and it is used to estimate the production and distribution of the cosmogenic isotopes 14C and 10Be. These estimates have been compared with terrestrial archives in ice cores and tree rings.