Are geomagnetic data consistent with stably stratified flow at the core-mantle boundary?
Are geomagnetic data consistent with stably stratified flow at the core-mantle boundary?
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地磁数据与核幔边界处的稳定层流一致吗?
DOI:
10.1093/gji/ggv031
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发表时间:
2015
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2.8
通讯作者:
Wardinski
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作者:
Whaler;Wardinski
Recent first principles calculations of the Earth's outer core thermal and electrical conductivities have raised their values by a factor of three. This has significant implications for geodynamo operation, in particular, forcing the development of a stably stratified layer at the core–mantle boundary (CMB). This study seeks to test the hypothesis of a stably stratified layer in the uppermost core by analysing geomagnetic observations made by the CHAMP satellite. An inversion method is utilized that jointly solves for the time-dependent main field and the core surface flow, where we assume the temporal variability of the main field, its secular variation (SV), to be entirely due to advective motion within the liquid outer core. The results show that a large-scale pure toroidal flow, consistent with a stably stratified layer atop the outer core, is not compatible with the observed magnetic field during the CHAMP era. However, allowing just a small amount of poloidal flow leads to a model fitting the observations satisfactorily. As this poloidal flow component is large scale, within a predominantly toroidal, essentially tangentially geostrophic flow, it is compatible with a stably stratified upper outer core. Further, our assumption of little or no diffusive SV may not hold, and a small amount of SV generated locally by diffusion might lead to a large-scale pure toroidal flow providing an acceptable fit to the data.
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