No conclusive picture has emerged yet that would allow us to quantitatively correct ¹⁰Be records for varying climate influences, which in turn, hinders a more reliable solar reconstruction. Therefore, my PhD project will mainly focus on the climate influence on the ¹⁰Be transport and deposit process in Greenland, then to have a better solar activity reconstruction based on ¹⁰Be over a period of the last 200yrs.

I will work on an 80 m deep short ice core from the NEEM project that is dedicated exclusively to ¹⁰Be measurement. This shallow NEEM ice core is especially well suited for such an analysis since it can cover this time period with seasonal resolution which is unprecedented. High resolution ¹⁰Be activity coupled with reanalysis data and climate models would help us to shed light on the problem identifying and separating the climatic influences on ¹⁰Be records.

Supervisors: Raimund Muscheler (main supervisor, LU); Jesper Sjolte (LU); Florian Adolphi (LU); Andreas Nilsson (LU).