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 …

Recent geodynamo simulations and observations of the geomagnetic field

M Kono, PH Roberts - Reviews of Geophysics, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
In 1995, two groups [Kageyama et al., 1995; Glatzmaier and Roberts, 1995a, 1995b]
reported results of numerical integrations of fully three‐dimensional, fully nonlinear …

Scaling properties of convection-driven dynamos in rotating spherical shells and application to planetary magnetic fields

UR Christensen, J Aubert - Geophysical Journal International, 2006 - academic.oup.com
We study numerically an extensive set of dynamo models in rotating spherical shells,
varying all relevant control parameters by at least two orders of magnitude. Convection is …

Convective flows in rapidly rotating spheres and their dynamo action

FH Busse - Physics of fluids, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
The present understanding of convection in rotating spherical fluid shells is reviewed and
some recent results on coherent structures and magnetic field generation are considered in …

[HTML][HTML] Time evolution of the South Atlantic magnetic anomaly

GA Hartmann, IG Pacca - Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2009 - SciELO Brasil
The South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly (SAMA) is one of the most outstanding anomalies of
the geomagnetic field. The SAMA secular variation was obtained and compared to the …

Generation mechanism of a dipole field by a magnetohydrodynamic dynamo

A Kageyama, T Sato - Physical review E, 1997 - APS
Computer simulation of a magnetohydrodynamic dynamo in a rotating spherical shell is
performed. A strong magnetic field is generated by thermal convection motion of an …

Scale separated low viscosity dynamos and dissipation within the Earth's core

A Sheyko, C Finlay, J Favre, A Jackson - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The mechanism by which the Earth's magnetic field is generated is thought to be thermal
convection in the metallic liquid iron core. Here we present results of a suite of self …

Full sphere hydrodynamic and dynamo benchmarks

P Marti, N Schaeffer, R Hollerbach… - Geophysical Journal …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Convection in planetary cores can generate fluid flow and magnetic fields, and a number of
sophisticated codes exist to simulate the dynamic behaviour of such systems. We report on …

Periodic reversals of magnetic field generated by thermal convection in a rotating spherical shell

S Kida, K Araki, H Kitauchi - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 1997 - jstage.jst.go.jp
抄録 The generation and reversals of the magnetic field are investigated by the use of direct
numerical simulation of a thermally driven MHD Boussinesq flow in a rotating spherical …

Repeated and sudden reversals of the dipole field generated by a spherical dynamo action

J Li, T Sato, A Kageyama - Science, 2002 - science.org
Using long-duration, three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation, we found that the
magnetic dipole field generated by a dynamo action in a rotating spherical shell repeatedly …