An analysis of the fluctuations of the geomagnetic dipole

Details An analysis of the fluctuations of the geomagnetic dipole An analysis of the fluctuations of the geomagnetic dipole

2007-07-04

arxiv.org/abs/0707.0623v1

Phys. Earth Planet. Inter. 162 (2007) 249-255

Physics

Geophysics

11 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.pepi.2007.05.005

The time evolution of the strength of the Earth's virtual axial dipole moment (VADM) is analyzed by relating it to the Fokker-Planck equation, which describes a random walk with VADM-dependent drift and diffusion coefficients. We demonstrate first that our method is able to retrieve the correct shape of the drift and diffusion coefficients from a time series generated by a test model. Analysis of the Sint-2000 data shows that the geomagnetic dipole mode has a linear growth time of 13 to 33 kyr, and that the nonlinear quenching of the growth rate follows a quadratic function of the type [1-(x/x0)^2]. On theoretical grounds, the diffusive motion of the VADM is expected to be driven by multiplicative noise, and the corresponding diffusion coefficient to scale quadratically with dipole strength. However, analysis of the Sint-2000 VADM data reveals a diffusion which depends only very weakly on the dipole strength. This may indicate that the magnetic field quenches the amplitude of the turbulent velocity in the Earth's outer core.

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