| タイトル | The scientific case for magnetic field satellites |
| 本文（外部サイト） | http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19910000788 |
| 著者（英） | Heirtzler, James R.; Harrison, Christopher G. A.; Benton, Edward R.; Backus, George E. |
| 著者所属（英） | Joint Oceanographic Inst., Inc. |
| 発行日 | 1987-09-01 |
| 言語 | eng |
| 内容記述 | To make full use of modern magnetic data and the paleomagnetic record, we must greatly improve our understanding of how the geodynamo system works. It is clearly nonlinear, probably chaotic, and its dimensionless parameters cannot yet be reproduced on a laboratory scale. It is accessible only to theory and to measurements made at and above the earth's surface. These measurements include essentially all geophysical types. Gravity and seismology give evidence for undulations in the core-mantle boundary (CMB) and for temperature variations in the lower mantle which can affect core convection and hence the dynamo. VLBI measurements of the variations in the Chandler wobble and length of day are affected by, among other things, the electromagnetic and mechanical transfer of angular momentum across the CMB. Finally, measurements of the vector magnetic field, its intensity, or its direction, give the most direct access to the core dynamo and the electrical conductivity of the lower mantle. The 120 gauss coefficients of degrees up to 10 probably come from the core, with only modest interference by mantle conductivity and crustal magnetization. By contrast, only three angular accelerations enter the problem of angular momentum transfer across the CMB. Satellite measurements of the vector magnetic field are uniquely able to provide the spatial coverage required for extrapolation to the CMB, and to isolate and measure certain magnetic signals which to the student of the geodynamo represent noise, but which are of great interest elsewhere in geophysics. Here, these claims are justified and the mission parameters likely to be scientifically most useful for observing the geodynamo system are described. |
| NASA分類 | SPACECRAFT DESIGN, TESTING AND PERFORMANCE |
| レポートNO | 91N10101
NASA-CR-186532
NAS 1.26:186532 |
| 権利 | No Copyright |
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