RESEARCH PAPERS : Secular variation of the poloidal magnetic field at the core-mantle boundary

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Jan 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998geoji.132..181b&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Journal International, Volume 132, Issue 1, pp. 181-190.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Core, Antle Boundary, Mantle Conductivity, Poloidal Field, Secular Variation

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A region of enhanced conductivity at the base of the mantle is modelled by an infinitesimally thin sheet of uniform effective conductance adjacent to the core-mantle boundary. Currents induced in this sheet by the temporally varying magnetic field produced by the geodynamo give rise to a discontinuity in the horizontal components of the poloidal magnetic field on crossing the sheet, while the radial component is continuous across the sheet. Treating the rest of the mantle as an insulator, the horizontal components of the poloidal magnetic field and their secular variation at the top of the core are determined from geomagnetic field, secular variation and secular acceleration models. It is seen that for an assumed effective conductance of the sheet of 108 S, which may be not unrealistic, the changes produced in the horizontal components of the poloidal field at the top of the core are usually <=10 per cent, but corrections to the secular variation in these components at the top of the core are typically 40 per cent, which is greater than the differences that exist between different secular variation models for the same epoch. Given the assumption that all the conductivity of the mantle is concentrated into a thin shell, the present method is not restricted to a weakly conducting mantle. Results obtained are compared with perturbation solutions.

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