期刊
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
卷 424, 期 -, 页码 148-157出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.05.028
关键词
geomagnetic field; geodynamo; inner core translation
资金
- Natural Environment Research Council personal fellowship [NE/H01571X/1]
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/G002223/1]
- Office of Science and Technology through EPSRC's High End Computing Programme
- NERC [NE/G002223/1, NE/L011328/1, NE/H01571X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/H01571X/1, NE/G002223/1, NE/L011328/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Bulk translation of the Earth's inner core has been proposed as an explanation of observed quasi-hemispheric seismic structure. An important consequence of inner core translation would be the generation of a spherical harmonic degree one heat flow anomaly at the inner core boundary (ICB) that would provide an inhomogeneous forcing for outer core convection. We use geodynamo simulations to investigate the geomagnetic signature of such heterogeneity. Strong hemispheric heterogeneity at the ICB is found to produce a hemispheric signature in both the morphology of the magnetic field and its secular variation; in particular, we note the formation of high-intensity flux patches at high-latitudes and American longitudes in our model with strong ICB heterogeneity. In our simulations, this model provides the best match to the Earth's field over the past 400 years according to previously proposed measures of field structure. However, these criteria do not include the hemispheric balance of the field. We propose new criteria to measure this balance and find that our model with strong ICB heterogeneity produces the poorest match to the hemispheric balance of the historical geomagnetic field. Resolution of the hemispheric balance of the magnetic field throughout the Holocene would provide a strong test of any proposal of rapid inner core translation. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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