scholarly journals Thermoelectric Currents of Earth’s Core Generate the Earth’s Magnetic Field

2017 ◽  
Vol 08 (08) ◽  
pp. 1048-1071
Author(s):  
Arkadiy Nikolaevich Dmitriev

The ‘dynamo theory’ ascribes the origin of the earth’s magnetic field to the dynamo action of motions in the conducting fluid of the earth’s core. This paper supports the theory by proving rigorously that it is possible to postulate a pattern of motions in a sphere filled with conducting fluid in such a way that the arrangement acts as a dynamo producing a magnetic field extending outside the conductor. The equations of motion of the fluid are ignored. The proof is given for a model consisting of two eddies in the earth’s core, and does no more than demonstrate that motions in a sphere filled with conducting fluid can act as a steady dynamo. It is certainly not suggested that the motions in the earth’s core are so simple. There is nothing pathological about the relative orientations of the angular velocity vectors of the two eddies which lead to dynamo action; in fact about half of the possible relative orientations work.


Eos ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bas den Hond

Earth’s magnetic field waxes and wanes as supercontinents form and break up, suggests a new study postulating a direct connection between our planet’s crust and its core.


Author(s):  
A. Soloviev ◽  
A. Khokhlov ◽  
E. Jalkovsky ◽  
A. Berezko ◽  
A. Lebedev ◽  
...  

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
A. E. Berezko ◽  
A. V. Khokhlov ◽  
A. A. Soloviev ◽  
A. D. Gvishiani ◽  
E. A. Zhalkovsky ◽  
...  

1967 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
KJW Lynn ◽  
J Crouchley

Results of a study at Brisbane of individual night-time sferics of known origin are described. A propagation attenuation minimum was observed in the 3-6 kHz range. The geographic distribution of sferic types was also examined. Apparent propagation asynunetries were observed, since sferics were detected at greater ranges to the west than to the east at 10 kHz, whilst the number of tweek-sferics arising from the east was about four times that arising from the west. Comparison with European studies suggest that these asymmetries are general. These results are then " interpreted in terms of an ionospheric reflection cgefficient which is a function of the effective angle of incidence of the wave on the ionosphere and of orientation with respect to the Earth's magnetic field within the ionosphere.


2019 ◽  
Vol 287 ◽  
pp. 10-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuhiro Okayama ◽  
Nobutatsu Mochizuki ◽  
Yutaka Wada ◽  
Yo-ichiro Otofuji

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