The Influence of Orbital Forcing on ¹⁰Be Deposition in Greenland Over the Glacial Period

Understanding the transport and deposition of the cosmogenic isotope ¹⁰Be is vital for the application of the isotope data to infer past changes of solar activity, to reconstruct past Earth’s magnetic field intensity and climate change. Here, we use data of the cosmogenic isotope ¹⁰Be from the Greenland ice cores, namely the NEEM and GRIP ice cores, to identify factors controlling its distribution. After removing the effects of the geomagnetic field on the cosmogenic radionuclide production rate, the results expose imprints of the 20–22 ka precession cycle on the Greenland ¹⁰Be records of the last glacial period. This finding can further improve the understanding of ¹⁰Be variability in ice sheets and has the prospect of providing better reconstructions of geomagnetic and solar activity based on cosmogenic radionuclide records.