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arXiv 1804.04865physics.geo-ph
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地球发电机高级数值模拟中的地磁加速度和快速磁流体波动力学

Geomagnetic acceleration and rapid hydromagnetic wave dynamics in advanced numerical simulations of the geodynamo

Julien Aubert

摘要:

地磁长期加速度是研究地核动力学的一个独特窗口。在这项研究中,长期的加速度和底层的核心动力学的行为进行检查,在新的数值模拟的geodynamo驻留在参数空间中的理论路径连接的区域,其中最经典的模型被发现的自然条件。地磁加速度的典型时间尺度在这条路径上是不变的,其值接近10年,与地核的估计值相匹配。尽管这种不变性,时空特性的长期加速度显示出显着的变化沿路径,与渐近制度的快速旋转后达到30%的这条路径(对应于模型埃克曼数$E=3~10^{-7}$)。在这个制度中,长期加速的能量完全发现在周期长于行星旋转,和底层的流加速模式获得一个二维的柱状结构代表的快速旋转极限。长期加速度在核幔边界的空间格局显示出显着的本地化的能量在赤道带。快速磁流体波动力学是不存在的路径的开始,但可以清楚地表现在渐近制度。这项研究报告无处不在的轴对称地转扭转波的弱振幅相对于对流传输,也更强,横向有限,准地转阿尔文波传播的圆柱径向方向从对流羽流的尖端向核幔边界。准地转Alfvén波被证明是一个重要的载体流加速到核心表面,与长期加速能量中的强,短寿命和间歇性的赤道脉冲的产生。

英文摘要:

Geomagnetic secular acceleration is a unique window on the dynamics taking place in Earth's core. In this study, the behaviours of the secular acceleration and underlying core dynamics are examined in new numerical simulations of the geodynamo that reside on a theoretical path in parameter space connecting the region where most classical models are found to the natural conditions. The typical time scale for geomagnetic acceleration is found to be invariant along this path, at a value close to 10 years that matches Earth's core estimates. Despite this invariance, the spatio-temporal properties of secular acceleration show significant variability along the path, with an asymptotic regime of rapid rotation reached after 30% of this path (corresponding to a model Ekman number $E=3~10^{-7}$). In this regime, the energy of secular acceleration is entirely found at periods longer than that of planetary rotation, and the underlying flow acceleration patterns acquire a two-dimensional columnar structure representative of the rapid rotation limit. The spatial pattern of the secular acceleration at the core-mantle boundary shows significant localisation of energy within an equatorial belt. Rapid hydromagnetic wave dynamics is absent at the start of the path but can be clearly exhibited in the asymptotic regime. This study reports on ubiquitous axisymmetric geostrophic torsional waves of weak amplitude relatively to convective transport, and also stronger, laterally limited, quasi-geostrophic Alfvén waves propagating in the cylindrical radial direction from the tip of convective plumes towards the core-mantle boundary. Quasi-geostrophic Alfvén waves are shown to be an important carrier of flow acceleration to the core surface that links with the generation of strong, short-lived and intermittent equatorial pulses in the secular acceleration energy.

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