Physics
Scientific paper
Nov 1984
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984pepi...36....1c&link_type=abstract
(International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, Symposium on Origin of Main Fields and Secular Changes of the Earth and
Physics
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Earth Core, Geophysical Fluids, Gravity Waves, Oscillating Flow, Buoyancy, Periodic Variations, Strata, Wave Attenuation, Wave Excitation, Wave Propagation
Scientific paper
There has been renewed interest lately in the possibility that at least a part of the earth's liquid core may be stably stratified. A gravitationally stable region would permit the existence of inertia-gravity or gravity-inertia waves in addition to the Rossby and Kelvin waves which exist due to rotational effects and which are well known in oceanography and atmospheric dynamics. These wave motions are of interest beacuse their periods are dependent on the density stratification as specified by the buoyancy frequency N which in turn determines the amplitude of large-scale radial motions in the core. The waves have too high a frequency to be connected dynamically to the magnetic field in the core, but if they do exist they may be detectable by sensitive long-period gravimeters at the earth's surface. Here the available evidence for the frequency regimes, excitation and damping mechanisms of the core waves is examined. It is concluded that although the waves may exist theroetically, their detection and interpretation as a method for determining N is a difficult proposition.
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