Sustaining Earth's magnetic dynamo

M Landeau, A Fournier, HC Nataf, D Cébron… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Earth's magnetic field is generated by fluid motions in the outer core. This geodynamo has
operated for over 3.4 billion years. However, the mechanism that has sustained the …

One hundred thousand years of geomagnetic field evolution

S Panovska, M Korte, CG Constable - Reviews of Geophysics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Paleomagnetic records from sediments, archeological artifacts, and lava flows provide the
foundation for studying geomagnetic field changes over 0–100 ka. Late Quaternary time …

Persistent high paleosecular variation activity in southern hemisphere for at least 10 000 years

C Constable, M Korte, S Panovska - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2016 - Elsevier
Direct observations of the geomagnetic field show that secular variation is strong in the
Atlantic hemisphere, and comparatively reduced in the Pacific region. The dipole has been …

Turbulent geodynamo simulations: a leap towards Earth's core

N Schaeffer, D Jault, HC Nataf… - Geophysical Journal …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We present an attempt to reach realistic turbulent regime in direct numerical simulations of
the geodynamo. We rely on a sequence of three convection-driven simulations in a rapidly …

Recurrent ancient geomagnetic field anomalies shed light on future evolution of the South Atlantic Anomaly

A Nilsson, N Suttie, JS Stoner… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The strength of the geomagnetic field has decreased rapidly over the past two centuries,
coinciding with an increasing field asymmetry due to the growth of the South Atlantic …

Collective motion in hcp-Fe at Earth's inner core conditions

Y Zhang, Y Wang, Y Huang, J Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Earth's inner core is predominantly composed of solid iron (Fe) and displays intriguing
properties such as strong shear softening and an ultrahigh Poisson's ratio. Insofar, physical …

Spherical convective dynamos in the rapidly rotating asymptotic regime

J Aubert, T Gastine, A Fournier - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - cambridge.org
Self-sustained convective dynamos in planetary systems operate in an asymptotic regime of
rapid rotation, where a balance is thought to hold between the Coriolis, pressure, buoyancy …

The CHAOS-4 geomagnetic field model

N Olsen, H Lühr, CC Finlay, TJ Sabaka… - Geophysical Journal …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We present CHAOS-4, a new version in the CHAOS model series, which aims to describe
the Earth's magnetic field with high spatial and temporal resolution. Terms up to spherical …

Longitudinal structure of Earth's magnetic field controlled by lower mantle heat flow

JE Mound, CJ Davies - Nature Geoscience, 2023 - nature.com
Thermal interactions between Earth's core and mantle provide the power that maintains the
geomagnetic field. However, the effect of these interactions and, in particular, the …

Rotating convective turbulence in Earth and planetary cores

JM Aurnou, MA Calkins, JS Cheng, K Julien… - Physics of the Earth and …, 2015 - Elsevier
An accurate description of turbulent core convection is necessary in order to build robust
models of planetary core processes. Towards this end, we focus here on the physics of …