[工程科技]Statistical analysis and modeling of variations of the earths magnetic field.pdfVIP

Statistical analysis and modeling of variations of the earth’s magnetic field Jon D. Pelletier 7 9 9 Department of Geological Sciences, Snee Hall, Cornell University 1 y Ithaca, NY 14853 a Power spectral analyses of the dipole moment of the earth’s magnetic M 6 field inferred from ocean sediment cores and archeomagnetic data from time 2 scales of 100 yr to 4 Myr have been carried out. The power spectrum is ] h p proportional to 1/f where f is the frequency. These analyses compliment - o previous work which has established a 1/f2 spectrum for variations at time e g s. scales less than 100 yr. Power spectral analyses of inclination and declination c i inferred from lake sediments from time scales of 10 yr to 30 kyr have also been s y h performed. The spectra are constant above time scales of 3 kyr, proportional p [ to 1/f2 from time scales of 500 yr to 3 kyr, and constant again below time 1 v scales of 500 yr. The 3 kyr time scale is associated with the decay time of the 4 3 0 quadrupole moment. We test the hypothesis that reversals are the result of 5 0 variations in dipole intensity with a 1/f spectrum which occasionally are large 7 9 / enough to cross the zero intensity value. Synthetic binormal time series with s c i a 1/f power spectrum representing variations in the earth’s dipole moment s y h are constructed. Synthetic reversals from these time series exhibit statistics p : in good agreement