Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 1969
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1969rspsa.309...27b&link_type=abstract
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Volume 309, Issue 1496, pp. 27-40
Physics
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Scientific paper
Backus has observed that infinite core conductivity implies the vanishing of the time derivative of the magnetic flux through any patch on the core surface bounded by a 'null-flux curve', on which the radial magnetic field vanished. Field model GSFC (12/66) is consistent with this criterion only if features with scales smaller than angular degree 7 are important or if the dipole time derivatives are deleted. Deleting the dipole is reasonable if the dipole decays in its 3rd radial mode or core conductivity is 4 x 4^4 mho/m. If the data admit infinite conductivity, Backus has also shown that there is an infinite-dimensional affine space of 'eligible' surface velocity fields which will produce the observed secular variation from the observed geomagnetic field, but that at any point on any null-flux curve all eligible flows have the same component normal to the curve. Using only secular variation harmonic coefficients with angular degrees 2 to 6, we obtain velocity components normal to the null-flux curves which are compatible with primarily latitude-dependent westward drift, but not with the velocity field recently proposed by Kahle, Ball & Vestine (1967b).
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