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地磁场特征的浆体F层推断:从发电机模拟中得出

Geomagnetic signatures of the slurry F-layer inferred from dynamo simulations

School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds(利兹大学地球与环境学院)

Ludovic Huguet, Thomas Frasson, Souvik Naskar, Stephen J. Mason, Andrew T. Clarke, Hannah F. Rogers, Jonathan E. Mound, Christopher J. Davies

AI总结:

研究通过发电机模拟揭示了F层对地磁场的影响,表明其厚度和分层强度与地磁场特征相关,支持弱分层和较薄的F层。

摘要:

地震观测表明,地球液态外核的最底层是密度分层的。这种所谓的F层挑战了经典的核动力学理论,其中地球主磁场的发电机过程被假设为由内核边界处的热量和轻元素释放驱动。通过动力学模型可以重现由地震推断出的厚度、密度和速度异常,该模型将F层表示为液相上的一种两相两组分浆体,其中“雪”状的固态铁颗粒通过准静态的铁氧液流动。在这里,我们首次进行了热化学驱动的旋转对流和发电机作用的流体动力学模拟,其中包括对球壳几何结构底部的分层浆体F层的简单表示。我们证明,F层可以形成对柱状准地转流动的阻碍,这在核心表面表现为峰值径向和方位流动速度向低纬度迁移,随着厚度和分层强度的增加。在发电机模拟中,这种效应导致外边界(B_r)的极地最小值,随着分层强度的增加而增强和加深,并在纬度剖面中B_r的峰值向低纬度移动,时间变异性减少。F层的地磁场特征在时间平均B_r中最为显著,当解析到至少球谐度5时,且随着F层厚度和分层强度的增加,呈现出zonal度3和5高斯系数逐渐趋于负的趋势。我们的结果表明,F层厚度为600公里与地磁场观测结果不一致,更倾向于弱分层(归一化布兰特-韦斯利频率<1)和厚度小于400公里的层。

英文摘要:

Seismic observations indicate that the lowermost portion of Earth's liquid core is density stratified. The existence of this so-called F-layer challenges classical theories of core dynamics, where the geodynamo process that generates Earth's main magnetic field is assumed to be powered by heat and light element release at the inner core boundary. The seismically-inferred thickness, density, and velocity anomaly can be reproduced by a dynamical model that represents the F-layer as a two-phase two-component slurry on the liquidus, with a ``snow'' of solid iron particles falling through a quasi-static iron-oxygen liquid. Here, we present the first fluid dynamical simulations of thermochemically driven rotating convection and dynamo action that include a simple representation of the stratified slurry F-layer at the base of the spherical shell geometry. We show that the F-layer can create a barrier to columnar quasi-geostrophic flow, which is expressed near the core surface as a migration of peak radial and azimuthal flow speeds to lower latitudes as the thickness and stratification strength increase. In dynamo simulations, this effect induces polar minima in the radial magnetic field at the outer boundary ($B_r$) that strengthen and deepen with increasing stratification, and peaks in latitudinal profiles of $B_r$ moving to lower latitudes with reduced temporal variability. The geomagnetic signature of the F-layer is most prominent in time-averaged $B_r$, when resolved to at least spherical harmonic degree 5, and a trend of increasingly negative zonal degree 3 and 5 Gauss coefficients as the F-layer thickness and stratification strength increase. Our results suggest that an F-layer thickness of 600~km is incompatible with geomagnetic observations and favour weak stratification (normalised Brunt-Väisälä frequency $<1$) and a layer $<400$~km thick.

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