Click Here Observation of magnetic diffusion in the Earth's outer core from Magsat, Ørsted, and CHAMP data
International audience The frozen flux assumption consists in neglecting magnetic diffusion in the core. It has been widely used to compute core flows from geomagnetic observations. Here we investigate the validity of this assumption over the time interval 1980–2005, using high‐ precision magnetic d...
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ftsorbonneuniv:oai:HAL:insu-01288805v1 2024-05-19T07:48:33+00:00 Click Here Observation of magnetic diffusion in the Earth's outer core from Magsat, Ørsted, and CHAMP data Chulliat, A Olsen, N Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) National Space Institute Lyngby (DTU Space) Danmarks Tekniske Universitet = Technical University of Denmark (DTU) 2010 https://insu.hal.science/insu-01288805 https://insu.hal.science/insu-01288805/document https://insu.hal.science/insu-01288805/file/jgrb6994.pdf https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JB006994 en eng HAL CCSD American Geophysical Union info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1029/2009JB006994 insu-01288805 https://insu.hal.science/insu-01288805 https://insu.hal.science/insu-01288805/document https://insu.hal.science/insu-01288805/file/jgrb6994.pdf doi:10.1029/2009JB006994 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 2169-9313 EISSN: 2169-9356 Journal of Geophysical Research : Solid Earth https://insu.hal.science/insu-01288805 Journal of Geophysical Research : Solid Earth, 2010, 115 (B5), pp.B05105. ⟨10.1029/2009JB006994⟩ [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2010 ftsorbonneuniv https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JB006994 2024-05-02T02:10:44Z International audience The frozen flux assumption consists in neglecting magnetic diffusion in the core. It has been widely used to compute core flows from geomagnetic observations. Here we investigate the validity of this assumption over the time interval 1980–2005, using high‐ precision magnetic data from the Magsat, Ørsted, and CHAMP satellites. A detectable change of magnetic fluxes through patches delimited by curves of zero radial magnetic field at the core‐mantle boundary is associated with a failure of the frozen flux assumption. For each epoch (1980 and 2005), we calculate spatially regularized models of the core field which we use to investigate the change of reversed magnetic flux at the core surface. The largest and most robust change of reversed flux is observed for two patches: one located under St. Helena Island (near 20°S, 15°E); the other, much larger, is located under the South Atlantic Ocean. We next calculate frozen‐flux‐constrained field models (i.e., pairs of models for epoch 1980 and 2005 having the same flux through patches delimited by curves of zero radial magnetic field), using a penalty method. We find that the frozen flux constraint does not lead to any significant increase of the global misfit. However, applying the constraint leads to a detectable increase of the scalar residuals at satellite altitude in the region of St. Helena, strongly suggesting a local failure of the frozen flux assumption. The observed flux expulsion within the St. Helena patch could result from the formation of a pair of "core spots," as predicted by numerical simulations of the geodynamo. Article in Journal/Newspaper South Atlantic Ocean HAL Sorbonne Université Journal of Geophysical Research 115 B5 |
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International audience The frozen flux assumption consists in neglecting magnetic diffusion in the core. It has been widely used to compute core flows from geomagnetic observations. Here we investigate the validity of this assumption over the time interval 1980–2005, using high‐ precision magnetic data from the Magsat, Ørsted, and CHAMP satellites. A detectable change of magnetic fluxes through patches delimited by curves of zero radial magnetic field at the core‐mantle boundary is associated with a failure of the frozen flux assumption. For each epoch (1980 and 2005), we calculate spatially regularized models of the core field which we use to investigate the change of reversed magnetic flux at the core surface. The largest and most robust change of reversed flux is observed for two patches: one located under St. Helena Island (near 20°S, 15°E); the other, much larger, is located under the South Atlantic Ocean. We next calculate frozen‐flux‐constrained field models (i.e., pairs of models for epoch 1980 and 2005 having the same flux through patches delimited by curves of zero radial magnetic field), using a penalty method. We find that the frozen flux constraint does not lead to any significant increase of the global misfit. However, applying the constraint leads to a detectable increase of the scalar residuals at satellite altitude in the region of St. Helena, strongly suggesting a local failure of the frozen flux assumption. The observed flux expulsion within the St. Helena patch could result from the formation of a pair of "core spots," as predicted by numerical simulations of the geodynamo. |
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Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) National Space Institute Lyngby (DTU Space) Danmarks Tekniske Universitet = Technical University of Denmark (DTU) |
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