Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Nov 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007geoji.171..581j&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Journal International, Volume 171, Issue 5, pp. 581-593.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
5
Archeomagnetism, Core Dynamics, Geomagnetism, Geomagnetic Secular Variation, Palaeomagnetism, Scale Invariance
Scientific paper
The geodynamo exhibits a bewildering gamut of time-dependent fluctuations, on timescales from years to at least hundreds of millions of years. No framework yet exists that comprises all and relates each to all others in a quantitative sense. The technique of bootstrapped discrete scale invariance quantifies characteristic timescales of a process, based upon log-periodic fits of modulated power-law scaling of size-ranked event durations. Four independent geomagnetic data sets are analysed therewith, each spanning different timescales: the sequence of 332 known dipole reversal intervals (0-161 Ma); dipole intensity fluctuations (0-2 Ma); archeomagnetic secular variation (5000 B.C.-1950 A.D.); and historical secular variation (1590-1990 A.D.).
Six major characteristic timescales are empirically attested: circa 1.43 Ma, 56 Ka, and 763, 106, 21 and 3 yr. Moreover, all detected wavelengths and phases of the detected scaling signatures are highly similar, suggesting that a single process underlies all. This hypothesis is reinforced by extrapolating the log-periodic scaling signal of any particular data set to higher timescales than observed, through which predictions are obtained for characteristic scales attested elsewhere. Not only do many confirm one another, they also predict the typical duration of superchrons and geomagnetic jerks. A universal scaling bridge describes the complete range of geodynamo fluctuation timescales with a single power law.
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