Determination of the energy dissipation in the Geodynamo

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Laboratory experiments on the turbulent thermal convection of a liquid metal under ambient magnetic fields with various intensities were carried out. Consulting with the observed variations of the geomagnetic field and the results of geodynamo simulations, we tried to infer the turbulent state and the energy dissipation in the Earth's core. In the experiments, we found spontaneous reversals of the flow patterns of thermal convections within a certain range of the intensity of the magnetic fields and the Rayleigh numbers, which might be important to understand the origin of the geomagnetic field reversals.