Dynamo scaling laws and applications to the planets

UR Christensen - Space science reviews, 2010 - Springer
Scaling laws for planetary dynamos relate the characteristic magnetic field strength,
characteristic flow velocity and other properties to primary quantities such as core size …

Challenges handling magnetospheric and ionospheric signals in internal geomagnetic field modelling

CC Finlay, V Lesur, E Thébault, F Vervelidou… - Space Science …, 2017 - Springer
Measurements of the Earth's magnetic field collected by low-Earth-orbit satellites such as
Swarm and CHAMP, as well as at ground observatories, are dominated by sources in the …

Longitudinal variation of the E‐region electric fields caused by atmospheric tides

SL England, S Maus, TJ Immel… - Geophysical Research …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Polarization electric fields created by the E‐and F‐region dynamos cause the uplift of F‐
region plasma. The subsequent redistribution of that plasma along the magnetic field lines …

Conditions for Earth-like geodynamo models

UR Christensen, J Aubert, G Hulot - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2010 - Elsevier
For many published dynamo models an Earth-like magnetic field has been claimed.
However, it has also been noted that as the Ekman number (viscosity) is lowered to less …

Absolute positioning using the Earth's magnetic anomaly field

A Canciani, J Raquet - NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Achieving worldwide dependable alternatives to the Global Positioning System is a
challenging engineering problem. Current Global Positioning System alternatives often …

An ellipsoidal harmonic representation of Earth's lithospheric magnetic field to degree and order 720

S Maus - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
While high‐degree models of the Earth's gravity potential have been inferred from
measurements for more than a decade, corresponding geomagnetic models are difficult to …

The magnetic field of planet Earth

G Hulot, CC Finlay, CG Constable, N Olsen… - Planetary …, 2010 - Springer
The magnetic field of the Earth is by far the best documented magnetic field of all known
planets. Considerable progress has been made in our understanding of its characteristics …

Geomagnetic secular acceleration, jerks, and a localized standing wave at the core surface from 2000 to 2010

A Chulliat, S Maus - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The geomagnetic secular acceleration (SA), defined as the second‐order time derivative of
the Earth's core magnetic field, is investigated using data from the CHAMP satellite. We …

GRIMM: the GFZ Reference Internal Magnetic Model based on vector satellite and observatory data

V Lesur, I Wardinski, M Rother… - Geophysical Journal …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
In this paper the new GFZ Reference Internal Magnetic Model (GRIMM) is presented. The
model has been derived from nearly 6 yr of CHAMP satellite data and 5 yr of observatory …

Quasi-geostrophic flows responsible for the secular variation of the Earth's magnetic field

MA Pais, D Jault - Geophysical Journal International, 2008 - academic.oup.com
We present core flows constructed from high resolution secular variation (SV) models for the
epochs 2001, 2002.5 and 2004, assuming that these flows are quasi-geostrophic in the core …