Centennial increase in geomagnetic activity: Latitudinal differences and global estimates

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Aug 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006jgra..11108209m&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 111, Issue A8, CiteID A08209

Physics

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Magnetospheric Physics: General Or Miscellaneous, Interplanetary Physics: Solar Cycle Variations (7536), Geomagnetism And Paleomagnetism: Time Variations: Diurnal To Decadal, Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics

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We study here the centennial change in geomagnetic activity using the newly proposed Inter-Hour Variability (IHV) index. We correct the earlier estimates of the centennial increase by taking into account the effect of the change of the sampling of the magnetic field from one sample per hour to hourly means in the first years of the previous century. Since the IHV index is a variability index, the larger variability in the case of hourly sampling leads, without due correction, to excessively large values in the beginning of the century and an underestimated centennial increase. We discuss two ways to extract the necessary sampling calibration factors and show that they agree very well with each other. The effect of calibration is especially large at the midlatitude Cheltenham/Fredricksburg (CLH/FRD) station where the centennial increase changes from only 6% to 24% caused by calibration. Sampling calibration also leads to a larger centennial increase of global geomagnetic activity based on the IHV index. The results verify a significant centennial increase in global geomagnetic activity, in a qualitative agreement with the aa index, although a quantitative comparison is not warranted. We also find that the centennial increase has a rather strong and curious latitudinal dependence. It is largest at high latitudes. Quite unexpectedly, it is larger at low latitudes than at midlatitudes. These new findings indicate interesting long-term changes in near-Earth space. We also discuss possible internal and external causes for these observed differences. The centennial change of geomagnetic activity may be partly affected by changes in external conditions, partly by the secular decrease of the Earth's magnetic moment whose effect in near-Earth space may be larger than estimated so far.

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