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2018 Interplanetary External Driven Geo Dynamo As The Origin of The Geomagnetic Jerks Aligned With Length of Day Variations and Gravity Anomalies
2018 Interplanetary External Driven Geo Dynamo As The Origin of The Geomagnetic Jerks Aligned With Length of Day Variations and Gravity Anomalies
Mohsen LUTEPHY
Chemistry engineer and independent researcher
Islamic Azad University Tehran Science and Research Branch,
Hwy Haggi St., Ahang, Iran; e-mail: [email protected], tel.: 00989354444405
Key words: geological and geophysical evidences of deep processes, core dynamics, heat
flow, magnetic and electrical methods, gravity variations, dynamo theory, geomagnetic
field variations, solar-terrestrial interaction, planets alignment, geomagnetic jerks, LOD
variations
1. Introduction
A geomagnetic jerk or secular geomagnetic variation impulse is a relatively
sudden change in the second derivative of the Earth’s magnetic field with re-
spect to time. These events were noted initially by Courtillot et al. (1978),
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Malin and Hodder (1982), Courtillot and Le Mouël (1984). The clearest
ones, observed all over the world, happened in 1969, 1978, 1991, and 1999.
Data before 1969 is scarce, but there is evidence of other global jerks in
1901, 1913, and 1925. Other events at 1932, 1949, 1958, 1986 and 2003
were detected only in some parts of the world and new analyzing has de-
tected some next jerks. We do not want to introduce here a technical version
of the geomagnetic jerk features in detail for example the exact geographi-
cal map of the magnetic field variations or exact inverse engineering of the
secular variations to shape the core flows dynamics because that our paper
is not on the detection of the geomagnetic jerks. But we want to explain
here the origin of the detected geomagnetic jerks in addition with detection
of the LOD variations and relevant gravity changes all on the base of ex-
perimental results and solar system phenomenology and Maxwell equations
and hydrodynamics, and in reality we want to show here that the reported
geomagnetic jerks aligned with LOD variations and relevant gravity changes
are not appeared randomly suppose originated externally out of the Earth’s
atmosphere. But the introduction of geomagnetic jerks features in detail
is visible at multitude of the papers published before and for an excellent
general definition of the geomagnetic jerk features we may refer to the pa-
per Tozzi et al. (2009) and many next papers are included to the relevant
introductions not needed to repeat here.
By the way, measurements are showing the abrupt changes of the sec-
ular magnetic field in some dates (De Michelis et al., 2005; Brown et al.,
2013; Alexandrescu et al., 1996) assumed to be connected to the core flows
(Bloxham and Jackson, 1991; Mandea et al., 2010; Holme, 2007) and at the
paper “The origin of the geomagnetic jerks” (Bloxham et al., 2002), we see
a general explanation of process as noted that:
“The fact that they represent a reorganization of the secular variation im-
plies that they are of internal origin, and their short timescale implies that
they are due to a change in the fluid flow at the surface of the Earth’s core
(as has also been established through mapping the time-varying flow at the
core surface). However, little is understood of their physical origin. Here
we show that geomagnetic jerks can be explained by the combination of a
steady flow and a simple time-varying, axisymmetric, equatorially symmet-
ric, toroidal zonal flow. Such a flow is consistent with torsional oscillations
in the Earth’s core, which are simple oscillatory flows in the core that are
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expected on theoretical grounds, and observed in both core flow models and
numerical dynamo models.”
An analysis on the measurements data is showing a background oscillat-
ing geomagnetic jerk as 5.9 years’ periodic oscillation of the geomagnetic
jerks (Silva et al., 2012; Brown et al., 2013) and as noted at Silva et al.
(2012) paper:
“The first time derivative of residual length-of-day observations is known
to contain a distinctive 6-year periodic oscillation. Here we theorize that
through the flow accelerations at the top of the core the same periodicity
should arise in the geomagnetic secular acceleration. We use the secular
acceleration of the CHAOS-3 and CM4 geomagnetic field models to recover
frequency spectra through both a traditional Fourier analysis and empirical
mode decomposition. We identify the 6-year periodic signal in the geomag-
netic secular acceleration and characterize its spatial behaviour.”
The analysis by scientists on the LOD observations show that the length
of day is changing periodically almost 5.9 years (Vondrák and Burša, 1977;
Liao and Greiner-Mai, 1999; Abarca del Rio et al., 2000; Mound and Buf-
fett, 2003; 2006; Olsen and Mandea, 2007; Holme and de Viron, 2013) as a
verification for oscillation of the Earth’s rotation aligned with geomagnetic
jerk 5.9 years oscillation and not only the 5.9 years periodic signals are
confirmed for times above 1960 suppose as noted at Holme and de Viron
(2013), the 5.9 years signals have been confirmed for times before 1960 as:
“Also plotted (vertically shifted for clarity) are the decadal varying signal
alone and the data with the 5.9-year oscillation subtracted, demonstrating
the separation of the oscillation from the background trend. Inference from
spectral studies suggests that the 5.9-year oscillation is also present prior to
1960.”
We have shown here phenomenological evidences for link of the interplan-
etary external sources and internal core flows, and new reported geomag-
netic jerks and historical geomagnetic jerks (Korte et al., 2009; Qamili et
al., 2013; Matzka et al., 2010) are being detected all in agreement with Jo-
vian planets alignments and observations show the 11-year periodic signals
too and strongly this is correlated to the solar activity and we have shown
here the origin of the planetary semi-annual signals too. On the other hand,
recently it was published an article by Anderson et al. (2015) on the gravi-
tational constant G measurements data, reported in these decades and their
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analysis in the data shows the Earth’s gravity is oscillating at the same pe-
riod the Earth rotation is oscillating and Mandea et al. (2012) has analyzed
the data from continuous satellite measurements made from 1999 to 2010
so that oscillation of the Earth’s magnetic jerk aligns with Earth’s gravity
oscillation and for exact analysis on data we may refer to Schlamminger et
al. (2015).
We need to notice that the main reason of jerks is outside of the Earth.
In the paper it is considered as the interplanetary driven partial quasidy-
namo which, of course, is not the self consistent hydromagnetic dynamo,
mechanism operating in the Earth‘s outer core. This partial quasidynamo
is an of external origin perturbation of flows and magnetic fields on the
CMB.
In the section 1 – in the introduction we have described the annals of the
Geomagnetic jerks and LOD variations and gravity anomalies in relevant
together and we have shown some examples of the occurrences and a simple
definition of the parameters and data and in the section 2. We have dis-
cussed purely the possible mechanism and probable methods and we have
resulted the equations and formulas on the base of the Maxwell equations
and hydrodynamics and in section 3. We have shown the observational data
and experimental results referenced to the published papers and reported
data by scientists to set with pure results aligned with description of the
compatibles included to the relevant figures and tables and this section,
we have referred to the solar system simulators to evaluate the parameters
and ultimately in the conclusions it has been described the most important
motes of the paper in simplest and shortest sentences.
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The geomagnetic jerks reveal presence of the core flows (Bullard, 1948) as
quoted by Bullard that:
“It may be subject to turbulent currents due to thermal convection or to the
shearing forces associated with the secular deceleration of the Earth. Such
motions would cause the conducting material of the core to move across the
Earth’s magnetic field and would produce electric currents. These electric
currents would produce a further magnetic field, and it is the purpose of
this paper to consider the hypothesis that the changes in this field constitute
the secular change. We do not consider the origin of the main field itself,
but merely use the observed fact of its existence as part of the mechanism
required to produce the secular change.”
It has been theorized to exist secular change of the magnetic field, rel-
evant to the chaotic occurrences of the core flows as mentioned in some
papers, for example Qamili et al. (2013). But observations are showing
that partial geomagnetic jerks over time scale of a year or more, almost all
are not random suppose random processes probably are atmospheric (iono-
sphere and magnetosphere) tiny effects and some long time secular vari-
ations might dependent too to convectional heat processes in the mantle
(Biggin et al., 2012) and then based on the Bullard suggested mechanism,
it remains turbulent currents due to the thermal convection as a possible
internal origin of the geomagnetic jerks whereas that we may refer to newer
papers, for example Bloxham et al. (2002), Dumberry and Bloxham (2006).
For geomagnetic jerk extraction from core flows and dynamo driven core
currents, we may refer to a scientific technical report (Wardinski, 2004)
“Core Surface Flow Models from Decadal and Sub decadal Secular Varia-
tion of the Main Geomagnetic Field”.
At all papers the geomagnetic jerks are completely on the Maxwell equa-
tions and hydrodynamics related to the core fluxes and the fluid fluxes cause
to oscillate the gravity and Earth’s spin because of asymmetric change in the
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moment of inertia for change of gravity (Dumberry, 2010) and the exchange
of angular momentum between the outer core and solid mantle (Mound
and Buffett, 2006). For Earth’s spin change and in addition to periodic
geomagnetic jerks we observe, abrupt geomagnetic jerks, reported in some
dates, and these abrupt geomagnetic jerks are aligned with gravity and LOD
anomalies too (Holme and de Viron, 2005; Nakada, 2009).
The cores of the planets are liquid conductors and then a possible expla-
nation is on the base of the eddy currents or generally geomagnetic induced
currents (GIC) (Fink and Christiansen, 1989). Eddy currents are loops of
the electric currents, induced within conductors by a changing magnetic
field in the conductor due to the Faraday law of induction.
A conductor object in a varying magnetic field or upon an AC voltage
will experience dissipation of kinetic energy and braking effect. This mecha-
nism does generate an external driven fluid fluxes as a partial quasidynamo
which might be defined as a perturbation in the whole Earth’s dynamo and
versus a theory published newly on the whole generation of the Earth’s
dynamo by lunar tidal effect (Andrault et al., 2016) which is so far to ac-
cept, the mechanism of interplanetary external driven dynamo here is a
secondary partial dynamo and ultimately, the drag forces are created by in-
duced currents and electrical resistance within conductors cause a dragging
effect analogous to friction which dissipates the kinetic energy as a source
for convectional hydrodynamic flows. In both externally driven and inter-
nally driven secular variations of the magnetic field, the cause are induced
currents and relevant heat convection and core fluid fluxes, based on the
Maxwell electromagnetism and hydrodynamics. However, the braking ef-
fect of the eddy currents too may result, the variation in the length of day.
We should notice that the Earth has internal driven fluid fluxes too and
some of the core flows which they cause to appear secular variation of the
geomagnetic field are relevant to the internal sources as the secondary dy-
namos. But external driven partial dynamos have own relevant induced
currents, penetrative in the Earth’s metallic core and some partial induced
currents are generated by external sources and continued by relevant core
flows. Motion of these external driven core flows through the Earth’s mag-
netic field will generate again, secondary induced currents by dynamo shape
mechanism. The Earth’s magnetic field will expand and amplify the exter-
nally driven heat processes. Thus, the Earth’s magnetic field is reason to
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continue and expand occurrences of the fluid fluxes and then the retarda-
tion of the visible events, and ultimately neutralized in an equilibrium point
by Magnetohydrodynamics as a mechanism initially developed by Alfvén
(1942) which causes to set fluids along the magnetic field lines or return-
ing to ever stable motions in equilibrium points with those relevant secular
change.
On the other hand against the internally driven core flows which moving
at whole inside of the core, on the base of the externally driven quasidy-
namo we understand that the external driven core flows will be generated
near the core mantle boundary (CMB) for that, in a perfect conductor with
no resistance, the surface eddy currents, exactly cancel the field inside the
conductor, so no external magnetic field penetrates inside the conductor and
then, eddy currents will be generated on the core mantle boundary. Recent
investigations of the secular acceleration pulses in the Earth’s magnetic field
have concluded that these events, observed at the Earth’s surface, are re-
sulted at the core mantle boundary (Bloxham, 1988; Buffett et al., 2016;
Chulliat et al., 2010; Mandea et al., 2000; Gire et al., 1986) or, (Voorhies,
1986, 1993, 1995, 2004). Then the core mantle boundary (CMB) is dom-
inant area for external driven fluxes originated by induced currents with
hundreds kilometer diameter to generate geomagnetic jerks as reported and
mentioned by scientists in references. Of course penetration of the exter-
nally driven quasidynamo to the core inside concerns to conductivity of the
metallic core and by decrease of the conductivity, the penetration depth of
external driven quasidynamo will increase proportionally.
In reality, the core flows models are scientific predictions from observa-
tions of the geomagnetic secular variations (with jerks included), accompa-
nied with LOD variations and gravity anomalies, as an inverse engineering
of the geomagnetic jerks’ observations and for a mathematical analysis on
the inverse theory, schematically we may refer in some sections to the paper
Aubert (2013).
Fluid fluxes are not ended after end of the initial generation of induced
currents, but continued by the Earth’s magnetic field. Because of the ab-
sorption and generation of the heat, they do not occur simultaneously and
not in a constant position. They can’t neutralize themselves suppose con-
tinued in the core as the hydrodynamic flows to develop induced currents
upon the Earth’s magnetic field. While it exits several number of the fluid
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fluxes, the event is visible as global. But since there is alone one fluid flux
it seems local event (Bloxham et al., 2002; De Michelis et al., 2005; Duka
et al., 2012).
Mathematical solutions on the base of the Maxwell equations and hydro-
dynamics have been developed for such an inverse theory and the problem
of electromagnetic induction in thin sheets was first formulated by Price
(1949) in terms of the scalar magnetic potentials of the inducing and in-
duced magnetic fields and developed by Ashour (1950) to investigate the
problem of induction of electric currents in a uniformly conducting circular
disk.
But we have a schematic comparable similarity between planetary driven
induced currents and ionosphere induced currents by geomagnetic field os-
cillations (Ashour and Price, 1948). Strong reason of this schematic correla-
tion is conductivity of both ionosphere and liquid cores and the reality that
the penetration of the Solar magnetic fields into the planetary interiors is
possible and similar to this penetration into their ionospheres.
It has long been known that the compass needle daily executes small
regular oscillations and Stewart (1882) concluded that the daily magnetic
variations were due to electric currents in the upper atmosphere and Stew-
art also suggested that convective currents established by the Sun’s heating
influence are to be regarded as “conductors moving across lines of mag-
netic force, and are thus the vehicle of electric currents which act upon the
magnet”. It is convenient to call this hypothesis of Stewart’s the “dynamo
theory”.
The theory received early support from Schuster (1889), who proved that
the greater part of the field of the Geomagnetic variations has its origin out-
side the Earth, and that the remainder may reasonably be attributed to the
Earth’s currents induced by the varying external field and Schuster (1908)
developed a dynamo theory for such an external effect. Improved the the-
ory further, giving special attention to the magnetic variations due to tides
caused by Moon, which are more amenable to theoretical treatment of ex-
ternally driven induced currents. Martyn (1949) showed that the oscillation
of the ionospheric E region was likely to be due to the electrodynamic forces
associated with the currents responsible for the lunar magnetic variations.
The current induction in an anisotropic ionosphere by external fields has
been studied by Ashour and Ferraro (1962; 1964) so that certain distribu-
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The flows at the top of the core, affect to generate LOD variations as noted
by Holme and Buffett (2015) that:
“We also consider the implications for the connection between core-surface
flow and length-of day variation – a stably stratified layer has implications
for interpretation of core flow and the Earth’s angular momentum budget.”
And we may refer to Holme and de Viron (2013) as noted that:
“Interdecadal periods have been less clear, and have been characterised by
signals with a wide range of periods and varying amplitudes, including a
peak at around 6 years. Here, by working in the time domain, rather than
the frequency domain, we demonstrate a clear partition of non-atmospheric
component into only three components: a decadally varying trend, 5.9-year
period oscillation and jumps at times contemporaneous with geomagnetic
jerks.”
The observations of 5.9 years periodic signals are showing we have geo-
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magnetic jerks in the Earth by varying the Sun’s magnetic field through the
Jupiter and this phenomenology shows that the Jupiter with big metallic
region has an intermediate effect electromagnetically on the Earth’s con-
ductive core and thus, we have the Jupiter driven partial core flows on the
terrestrial planets conductive cores and Jupiter effect is much larger than
that of other Jovian planets for its giant metallic region and nearness to
the Sun and nearness to the terrestrial planets and then mainly we detect
Jupiter-driven core flows at the Earth by the Sun’s magnetic field oscillation
through the Jupiter.
The Jovian magnetic field amplitude at the Earth’s position is very
smaller than that of the Sun and this means that the Jupiter’s magnetic
field is not directly affecting to generate eddy currents at the core of the
Earth and in reality, the period of signals in LOD variations and geomag-
netic jerks, don’t verify such a direct effect suppose the periodicities are
showing that the Jupiter has an intermediate effect on the Earth’s core to
generate geomagnetic jerks and relevant LOD variations and probable grav-
ity anomalies.
Observations are showing that the Sun should be affecting on the Jupiter
electrically conducting region and this Jupiter metallic Hydrogen region is
influencing on the Earth’s metallic core as an indirect intermediate effect.
But what is the mechanism of this interaction between metallic electrically
conducting regions?
It is almost impossible for such an interacting effect of the metallic cores
under the magnetic field variations by Hall effect and then we may refer to
Nipher experiments as a possible explanation. In the Nipher experiments
(Nipher, 1916; 1917; 1918) two metallic spheres were used so that a small
metallic core was in the Faraday cage and a next big metallic core was
outstanding and when Nipher used a AC voltage into the outstanding big
metallic core, it was observed a difference in the atomic level electric field
as a reason to generate electric interaction between these metallic spheres.
As noted in the New York Times (19 September 1917):
“It will be shown that gravitational attraction between masses of matter not
only has been diminished into zero, but has been converted into repulsion
which is more than twice as great as normal attraction.”
In further experiments (1918), Nipher decided to check his results. To do
this he replaced the large solid lead spheres with two metal boxes, each filled
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Fig. 1. Gravitational repulsion caused between large & small masses. Current on.
with loose cotton batting. These hollow boxes (having practically no mass)
rested upon insulators. They were separated from the protective screen by
sheets of glass and were grounded to it by heavy copper wires. The metal
boxes were then charged in every way that the solid lead spheres had been,
but not the slightest change in the position of the lead balls could be de-
tected. This would seem to prove conclusively that the “repulsion” and
“gravitational nullification” effects that he had produced when the solid
balls were electrically charged were genuine and based undoubtedly on a
true inter-atomic electrical reaction, and not upon any form of electrostatic
or electromagnetic effects between the large and small masses. In Nipher
experiments (Nipher, 1920) it was noted that:
“Results obtained on December 12 last are alone sufficient to establish the
fact that enormous local changes in the earth’s potential are constantly oc-
curring and these changes produce variations in gravitational attraction be-
tween large masses and suspended masses.”
In addition, it was noted by Very (1919) that:
“Nipher has shown that electric charges slowly penetrate into the substance
of the leaden spheres of the Cavendish apparatus, producing a repulsion
which is of the same order as their gravitational attraction, and this is no
matter whether the electricity be positive or negative. After equilibrium is
attained, and exhibition of the opposite sort of electricity penetrates most
rapidly into the substance of the smaller spheres and reverses their electric
sign first, when, for a time, there may be electric attraction, or at least a
progressively diminishing repulsion between the large and small spheres; but
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between planets and we may accept ultimately that there is a partial electric
interaction while the planets are upon the Sun’s magnetic field oscillation.
Then Sun’s magnetic field oscillation through the Jupiter will generate
shearing forces at the CMB as a turbulent flows generated by frictional
forces between solid mantle and molten core, and mechanism of this fric-
tional core flows is the same initially proposed by Bullard (1948) and the
change of atomic level potential energy is creating too, convectional heat
flows.
The primordial heat generation of the planets may be too relevant to the
change of the atomic level potential energy in the metallic cores and this
change of the potential energy possibly may reason to generate heat flows
in the core and their relevant convectional flows and then all geomagnetic
jerks may not be relevant to the shearing forces but directly may be relevant
to convectional flows.
The interaction of the planets cores is visible in the phenomena and
here, we will see that LOD variations and geomagnetic jerk reports and rel-
evant gravity anomalies are verifying external driven quasidynamo included
systematically to the metallic cores electric coupling effect and this is a
proposed mechanism here as a theory on the base of the phenomenologi-
cal reports and physical sciences. But scientists may refer to their theories
however experimental reports show that the Jupiter metallic region has
an influence on the Earth’s core as a coupling effect and Jovian planets
alignments with Jupiter are verifying such a process and this is verified by
analysis of the data here.
It was understood above that the Jupiter metallic region is active to in-
teract on the terrestrial planets metallic cores, of course since it be upon
the Sun’s magnetic field oscillation. But at the alignment dates which the
Jupiter is aligned with other Jovian planets or the Sun is in the middle of
Jovian alignment, the empirical results are showing that the Sun and Jovian
planets alignments with Jupiter are reason to enhance the electric activity
of the Jupiter to interact upon the terrestrial planets metallic cores. The
mechanism of this amplification phenomenon is not exactly clear yet but as
we will show it in the next sections, the reported data of geomagnetic jerks
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are verifying completely it and we will see that analysis of the scientific re-
ported data shows exactly that the alignment effect is not a direct magnetic
effect suppose it works as an amplification for electric coupling effect and
the size of the planetary magnetic fields is tiny to generate such a direct
effect.
At the alignments, the Jupiter metallic region has the more tendency to
interact with terrestrial planets metallic cores means that the alignment of
active conductive cores cause the electric coupling effect between metallic
cores to be amplified as an electric resonance and such a phenomenon re-
quires to be followed by scientists in detail whereas here on the base of the
jerks data and LOD variations, it is visible that the alignment effect am-
plifies the electric coupling effect between metallic cores of planets means
that the Sun’s magnetic field oscillation upon the electrically conducting re-
gions of planets activates the planets electric interaction and Jovian planets
alignments enhances it.
It was noted above that there exist a schematic similarity between the
ionosphere induced currents by external magnetic field variations and inter-
planetary externally driven quasidynamo and then it is probable to observe
the enhancement effect of geomagnetic variations in the ionosphere too. In
a theoretical discussion of the solar atmosphere, Cowling (1932) considered
the consequences, for the electron conductivity, of the inhibition of the Hall
current by polarization of the medium; he found this conductivity thereby
increased from the Pedersen value to that which obtained in the absence
of a magnetic field. Martyn (1948) suggested that this effect might be re-
sponsible for the high conductivity necessary in the ionosphere to meet the
requirements of the dynamo theory.
As noted Egedal (1947), the daily magnetic variations are considerably
enhanced in a narrow zone near the magnetic equators. Martyn (1949) ex-
amined the data accumulating regarding this equatorial enhancement, with
a view to testing the applicability of the enhanced conductivity to this re-
gion. He found evidence consistent with the existence of a narrow belt of
high conductivity encircling the Earth in a region lying near the equators
and for Hall current polarization on ionosphere at all latitudes we may refer
to Baker and Martyn (1953).
Then it is very probable that Jovian planetary alignments which cause
to enhance the Jovian driven quasidynamo, to be dependent to the induced
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3. Results
3.1. Solar magnetic field oscillation and planetary core flows
Schematically referring to the paper Ferris and Price (1965), the idea that
the ionosphere shields the Earth from magnetic field fluctuation outside it
is not entirely valid and then, for induced current driven by variation of the
external magnetic field and the reality that the magnitude of the current
in a given loop is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field, it is
resulted that the magnetic jerks OM in each planet M , it corresponds to the
first time derivative of the external magnetic fields B iM through the planet
which iis i-th magnetic field and M is M-th planet which the magnetic field
passes through in so that:
OM = kM |∂BiM /∂t| . (1)
The influence of the external magnetic fields to the conductive core of the
planets is not equal for different planets suppose coefficient k M seems to be
small for terrestrial planets, probably for those with solid mantle and thus
we should wait for record of the geomagnetic jerks in the Jovian planets
highly, directly by the Sun’s magnetic field variation through them however
this realization is very hard and in this time some scientists are analyzing
large scale variations in Jupiter (Ridley and Holme, 2016). For the Earth by
consideration of the Sun’s inverse cube force of magnetic field and Earth’s
equation of its elliptical orbit we deduce the Sun’s effect on the Earth’s core
by Eq. (1) that:
2π
O3 = −4
K30 r30
× sin t + θ3 . (2)
T3
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date however θ 3 is almost near to zero for Earth because that year beginning
is at the date that the Earth is almost at the major axis however θ is not
zero for other planets clearly.
By equation (2) we expect relevant geomagnetic jerk and LOD variations
and this equation is showing semi-annual signal for geomagnetic jerk and
LOD variation in the planets relevant to oscillation of the θ’s magnetic field
through the planets, of course actually included to those relevant retarda-
tions. By Eq. (2) we should expect minimum amplitudes for signals when
the Earth is on the major axis because, the sinus function at Eq. (2) is zero
at major axis and for points of the orbit that first time derivative of the
Sun’s magnetic field through the Earth is maximum we should expect peaks
for geomagnetic jerk and LOD variation diagrams and, for orbits near to
circle, these maximum values of the magnetic field time derivative should
lie on the minor axis.
This semi-annual oscillation is just match with first time derivative of
the Sun’s magnetic field through the planets because that the Sun’s fea-
tures similar to the solar wind and heat and radiation are not oscillating at
the planets position in such a oscillation phase which peaks be happened
just at the major axis and minor axis of the orbits and then if the measure-
ments at the Earth are verifying semi-annual signals which the peaks be
happened at the major and minor axes then such an experimental results
will verify completely the reality that the Sun’s magnetic field oscillation at
the planets does generate relevant semi-annual signals.
Now question is that is visible such a sinusoidal semi-annual signals at
the LOD variation and geomagnetic jerk and gravity anomalies?
For such a semi-annual signals we may refer to many papers for example
Le Mouël et al. (2010) or in the paper Höpfner (1998) we observe clear semi-
annual oscillations of the LOD, relevant to reality that the core flows are
dependent on the Sun as a complete phenomenological evidence for exter-
nally driven quasidynamo and we observe in the Fig. 2, complete agreement
of LOD variation semi-annual signals with Sun’s magnetic field sinusoidal
oscillation at the Earth position as a wonderful inevitable paradigm.
As it is visible the sinusoidal functions are completely in agreement and
such a symmetry is impossible to be occurred accidentally and similar semi-
annual variations should be appeared in the other planets too, of course
planetary semi-annual sinusoids in that planets.
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Fig. 2. The comparison of semi-annual LOD signals (Höpfner, 1998) versus the Sun’s
magnetic field oscillation through the Earth’s orbit.
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Jupiter metallic region is able not only to induct flows to the core of the
terrestrial planets suppose even, the induction is being amplified and ex-
panded by planets magnetic field and for Earth we have below equation so
that u53 is showing Jupiter penetration coefficient as the fifth planet on the
Earth as the third planet in the solar system and i is i-th external magnetic
field indices so that:
N
O3 = u53 |∂Bi5 /∂t| . (3)
i=0
Of course the Sun’s magnetic field B05 through the Jupiter is much greater
than that of the other external magnetic fields at the Jupiter position and
then this equation is transferred to a simpler equation that:
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with Eq. (5), we may refer to paper Silva et al. (2012) and as noted by
(Brown et al., 2013), the jerk amplitudes suggest possible periodic trends
which may related to the 6-year periods detected independently in the ge-
omagnetic secular variation and length-of-day. Length of day and secular
variation of the magnetic field are dependent on the core flows (Holme and
de Viron, 2005) as noted in this paper for a time-series that:
“By subtracting computed atmospheric angular momentum from a time-
series for length-of-day variations, we obtain a high-resolution time-series
that is useful for studying the effects of core on length-of-day variations.
Features in time-series are closely correlated with time at which geomagnetic
jerks have been observed, suggesting a role for core in angular momentum
exchange within Earth system on timescales as short as one year, and that
jerks are directly related to processes responsible for changes in core angular
momentum.”
At Fig. 3 we observe correlation between sinusoid of LOD variations and
Jupiter driven geomagnetic sinusoid at Eq. (5) so that the left side dia-
gram contributes to the analysis at Duan (2015) and we may refer to other
databases too.
Fig. 3. Comparison of the LOD variations signals and the Sun’s magnetic field sinusoid
through the Jupiter.
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Then the Jovian planets alignments with Jupiter is reason to amplify the
electromagnetic activity of the Jupiter which is the source of 5.93 years
periodic signal. This amplification is a source to generate abrupt geomag-
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netic jerks visible at the Earth surface. It means that the Jovian planets
alignments with Jupiter are reason to enhance the Jupiter metallic region
electromagnetic activity to influence on the Earth’s core so that Jovian
driven geomagnetic jerk is enhanced by an alignment amplifier factor λ as:
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Table 1. Saturn-Jupiter-Uranus
Line date Reported jerks epoch Line arc L (AU) Reports
1915.08.30 for event 1915 ∼ 25 ∼ 29 Brown et al., 2013;
Qamili et al., 2013
1922.08.02 Less marked event ∼8 ∼ 28 –
1925.02.04 for event 1925 ∼ 77 ∼ 27 Alexandrescu et al., 1996
1958.03.16–
1959.08.12 Tangential event 1958 ∼ 9 − 45 ∼ 28 Golovkov et al., 1989
1968.07.09 Related to 1969 event ∼ 37 ∼ 29 Le Mouël et al., 1982;
Malin et al., 1983
2010.07.10 For event 2011 ∼ 25 ∼ 30 Chulliat and Maus, 2014
see that when Jupiter is between the Jovian planets, the generated effect
is almost two times stronger and it is wonder that recorded jerk at 1896 is
exactly for lining up at 1895.08.11.
Again we see that the alignments of Saturn-Jupiter-Neptune with much
less line arcs, have no any jerk reports and generally all relevant geomag-
netic jerks are less marked as a relation between alignment arm length and
amplitude of the geomagnetic jerk.
Jupiter-Saturn-Neptune average arm length is almost equal to Saturn-
Jupiter-Neptune arm length but Jupiter is not in the middle and then the
amplitude is almost half and there is no any reported geomagnetic jerks
relevant to these alignments else a less marked event for 1989.11.11 if it be
possible to discriminate between other geomagnetic jerks occurred almost
simultaneously.
It is visible that the relevant geomagnetic jerks are less marked and this
is completely in agreement with size of the alignments arm length and value
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Table 2. Jupiter-Saturn-Uranus
Line date Reported jerks epoch Line arc L (AU) Reports
1895.08.11 Observed at 1896–1898 ∼ 86 ∼ 24.5 Balasis et al., 2016
1944.05.15 From 1945,
a strong field spreads
until 1949 ∼ 51 ∼ 19.5 Duka et al., 2012
1989.02.04 for a group of events ∼ 49 ∼ 24.5 Cafarella and Meloni, 1995;
centred at 1990.1 Macmillian, 1996;
De Michelis et al., 2005
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Table 3. Saturn-Jupiter-Neptune.
Line date Description Line arc L (AU) Report
1896.01.05 Less marked event ∼ 73 ∼ 39 Balasis et al., 2016
1902.10.26 Less marked event 1902–1903 ∼ 58 ∼ 39 Alexandrescu et al., 1996;
1902–1903 Duka et al., 2012
1904.05.01 – ∼6 ∼ 39 –
1933.11.30 – ∼ 10 ∼ 39 –
1971.07.10 For event 1972.1 ∼ 47 ∼ 40 Chambodut et al., 2007;
Duka et al., 2012
2008.11.11 for 2009 (–18.6 nT/yr2 ) ∼ 80 ∼ 40 Chulliat and Maus, 2014;
Kotzé and Korte, 2016
Table 4. Jupiter-Saturn-Neptune.
Line date Reported jerks epoch Line angle L (AU) Report
1915.12.18 – ∼ 15 ∼ 34 –
1952.08.06 – ∼ 19 ∼ 35 –
1989.11.11 For event centred at 1990.1 ∼ 74 ∼ 35 Cafarella and Meloni, 1995;
De Michelis et al., 2000)
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Table 5. Uranus-Jupiter-Neptune
Line date Reported jerks epoch Line arc L (AU) Jerk reports
1896.06.17 CLF and NGK Y -component ∼ 61 ∼ 49 Balasis et al., 2016
1899.04.10 Much less marked event ∼ 45 ∼ 49 –
1907.05.04 Less marked event observed 1908 ∼ 87 ∼ 50 Qamili et al., 2013;
observed 1908 Balasis et al., 2016
1915.03.14 Less marked event at 1915 ∼ 43 ∼ 49 Balasis et al., 2016
1918.06.08 Less marked observed
event 1919 ∼ 66 ∼ 49 Alexandrescu et al., 1996
Table 6. Jupiter-Uranus-Neptune
Line date Description Line arc L (AU) Jerk reports
1991.09.05 Report around 1992 ∼ 52 ∼ 34 Le Huy et al., 1998;
Brown et al., 2013
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Table 7. Jupiter-Sun-Saturn
Line date Reported jerks epoch Line arc (deg) Jerk reports
1892.01.16 observed event at 1983 ∼ 22 Nevanlinna, 2004;
Balasis et al., 2016
1911.05.14 observed event at 1912–1913 ∼ 25 Alexandrescu et al., 1996;
Ducruix et al., 1983
1930.12.23 observed event at 1932 ∼ 87 Alexandrescu et al., 1996
1951.08.04 observed event at 1952 ∼ 14 Duka et al., 2012
1971.01.12 observed event at 1972 ∼ 36 Chambodut and Mandea, 2005;
Qamili et al., 2013
1990.07.22 observed event at 1991 ∼ 84 De Michelis et al., 2005
2011.02.18 – ∼2 –
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Table 8. Jupiter-Sun-Uranus
Date Reported jerks epoch Line arc Jerk reports
1893.05.10 observed event at epoch 1894 ∼ 21 Nevanlinna, 2004;
Balasis et al., 2016
1907.02.15 observed event at epoch 1908 ∼ 85 Qamili et al., 2013;
Balasis et al., 2016
1920.10.20 observed event at epoch 1921 ∼ 43 Duka et al., 2012;
Pinheiro and
Travassos, 2010
1934.08.24 – ∼ 12 –
1948.07.11 Jerk observed in pacific area ∼ 71 Alexandrescu et al., 1996
and American regions at epoch
1949
1962.06.04 this event is similar to 1920.11.02 ∼ 48 Duka et al., 2012;
event and observed at epoch 1963 Qamili et al., 2013
1976.03.30 observed event in the field 1978 ∼ 17 Alexandrescu et al., 1996
1989.12.10 observed event at epoch 1990 ∼ 76 De Michelis et al., 2005;
Balasis et al., 2016
2003.09.06 Much less marked jerk ∼ 49 –
2017.07.07 – ∼ 12 –
Reports amplitudes fit with inverse square of the arm length and this is
possible to observe for other Jovian planets alignments with Jupiter too as
a verification for such a correlation between arm length of the alignments
and geomagnetic jerks amplitudes.
The average arm length of the Jupiter-Sun-Neptune alignment is 1.4
times longer than that of Jupiter-Sun-Uranus and then, relevant alignments
to the Jupiter-Sun-Neptune should be almost 2 times weaker and then, all
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Table 9. Jupiter-Sun-Neptune.
Line date Reported jerks epoch Line arc Jerk reports
1901.02.27 Saturn-Jupiter-Sun-Neptune ∼ 71 Alexandrescu et al., 1996
Event at epoch 1901–1902
1913.12.18 Less marked event reported ∼ 80 Balasis et al., 2016;
1913–1914 Alexandrescu et al., 1996
1926.09.15 – ∼ 52 –
1939.05.12 – ∼ 26 –
1952.02.01 – ∼0 –
1964.10.13 Revealed by Moscow observatory ∼ 30 –
1977.06.18 Observable in the field 1978 ∼ 57 Alexandrescu et al., 1996
1990.04.19 Much less marked event
between next events ∼ 85 –
2002.12.15 Less marked event observed ∼ 65 Olsen and Mandea, 2007;
at epoch 2003 detected by Balasis et al., 2016;
a new high resolution technique Silva and Hulot, 2012
2015.11.03 – ∼ 39 –
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and alignments, but for shortening the paper we show at Fig. 14, some of
the famous geomagnetic jerks relevant to their Jovian planets alignments.
Of course when the Sun is not in the middle of the Jovian planets align-
ments it is visible that the amplitude of the effect is weak as the same
manner for Jupiter when Jupiter is not in the middle. But for alignments of
Sun-Jupiter-Saturn it seems to exist some relevant Much less marked events
in reports for example for epochs 1901, 1981, 2000 (Balasis et al., 2016) and
1921, 1941 (Duka, 2012; Pinheiro and Travassos, 2010) and 1961 because
of the reality that arm length of Sun-Jupiter-Saturn is short proportionally
and Sun-Jupiter-Saturn effect might be relevant to the Saturn which the
Sun’s magnetic field is rapidly varying at alignment time through the Sat-
urn and this is in agreement with quick succession of geomagnetic jerks at
these epochs.
We observe that there are several consequanet noticeable events as Jupi-
ter-Saturn-Uranus at epoch 1989.02.04, Jupiter-Sun-Uranus at epoch 1989.
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Now referring to the reported geomagnetic jerk at epoch 2003 with ampli-
tude 25 nT/yr2 we can calculate structures’ coefficient β. At epoch 2003 we
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have Jupiter-Sun-Neptune with line arc 65 degree and arm length, 35 AU.
But 2003 event is almost at middle of the solar maximum activity and then
by consideration of calculations in the next section we find that the Sun’s
alignment effect while the Sun is in the middle, is 1.2 times stronger than Jo-
vian planets alignments while Jupiter is middle and so, structure coefficient
is deduced as:
Then not only here we can show the correlation of geomagnetic jerks with
Jovian planets alignments suppose we have an almost simple approximate
formula for ideal amplitude of the geomagnetic jerks and by this formula we
get amplitudes for jerks at Fig. 15. For existing alignments in the considered
interval 1980–2020 which confirms again the agreement of the correlations
included to the arm length inverse square and, correlation of the geomag-
netic jerk’s amplitudes to the sinus of the line arcs as the angle between the
Jupiter’s major axis and Jupiter-Sun line and ultimately, inevitable verifi-
cation for essential relation of the Sun’s magnetic field oscillation through
the Jupiter and Earth’s CMB core flows as the sources for the reported
geomagnetic jerks in these decades. It is wonder that there is a complete
one by one correlation between geomagnetic jerks and Jovian planets align-
ments means that for each observable Jovian alignment in the solar system
we have a report for geomagnetic jerk at that time and inversely for each
reported geomagnetic jerk in the data, we have a relevant Jovian alignment
and this confirmation is arguing inevitable correlation of the Jovian planets
alignments and geomagnetic jerks and at Fig. 15. It is visible correlation of
equations with observations carefully.
We need to notice that however the Jovian planets alignments with
Jupiter are to some extent strong that it is possible to measure their rele-
vant geomagnetic jerks at the Earth. But it is possible to observe such a
phenomenon about the Saturn instead Jupiter by improvement of the pre-
cise of the measurements and data analysis. For example, we may detect a
much less marked event for Saturn-Uranus-Neptun, when the Saturn is at
the active zone of its line arc and probably it is possible to detect a very
weak periodic 14.5-years signals, half of the Saturn orbital period. However,
detection of the Saturn dependent effect is easier at its alignment dates.
We see strong agreement between amplitudes of the observed geomag-
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Fig. 15. Geomagnetic jerks reported dates correlated to the Jovian planets alignments.
netic jerks and ideal formula at Eq. (7) above and for alignment at 2017.07.07,
the ideal formula shows 11 nT/yr 2 and because that this is a much less
marked event, the visibility of such an event is rare for distribution of geo-
magnetic jerk’s power and because of entopic reasons.
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Table 10. Geomagnetic jerks from 1410 to 1990 in comparison with alignments.
Line date Alignments Arm (AU) Line arc Report date
1409.10.07 JUP-SUN-URA ∼ 25 ∼ 72 1410
1447.01.01 JUP-SAT-URA ∼ 17 ∼ 60 1448
1506.07.02 JUP-SUN-URA ∼ 25 ∼ 53 1508
1597.05.01 SAT-JUP-URA ∼ 27 ∼ 40 1598
1603.02.10 JUP-SUN-URA ∼ 25 ∼ 40 1603
1658.11.15 JUP-SUN-NEP ∼ 35 ∼ 73 1661
1692.10.01 JUP-SUN-SAT ∼ 15 ∼ 55 1693
1706.02.19 JUP-SAT-NEP ∼ 32 ∼ 79 1708
1741.05.05 JUP-SUN-URA ∼ 25 ∼ 90 1741
1764.07.01 JUP-SAT-URA ∼ 19 ∼ 74 1763
1860.10.17 SAT-JUP-NEP ∼ 37 ∼ 65 1861
1888.04.14 JUP-SUN-NEP ∼ 35 ∼ 43 1889
Source: (Korte et al., 2009).
measurements (Qamili et al., 2013; Matzka et al., 2010), we see strong con-
firmations between dates of Jovian planets alignments and reported dates
for geomagnetic jerk as visible at Table 11.
However, the measurements have not generated precise dates but again
correlations are very strong between assumed parameters and we observe,
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the data as a diagram at Fig. 17 to see easier the correlations between events
dates and Jovian planets alignments.
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Fig. 18. The alignment completely in agreement with reported geomagnetic jerk at epoch
1860 (Newitt and Dawson, 1984).
3.5. Solar activity effect on the geomagnetic jerks and LOD vari-
ations
In addition to semi-annual signals generated by oscillation of the Sun’s
magnetic field at the Earth orbiting around the Sun, clearly we should wait
for 11 years’ periodic oscillation of the geomagnetic jerk and LOD, relevant
to the solar cyclical activity which concerns to the absolute oscillation of
the Sun’s magnetic field as noted at Vukcevic (2014) that:
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“Sunspots are associated with rise and fall of the soar toroidal magnetic
field, and normally appear in pairs. Direction of the magnetic field vector
B in the northern hemisphere coincides with the direction of solar rotation
(positive orientation, B > 0) during even-numbered cycles, it is opposite
for the southern hemisphere. Relationship between direction of rotation and
the magnetic field vector orientation is reversed during odd-numbered cycles
(for the northern hemisphere B < 0).”
Then solar cyclical activity will result two shapes of the 11-years periodic
signals in the LOD and geomagnetic jerks as:
Both direct absolute effect and Jupiter driven absolute effect of the solar
cyclical activity will clearly imply 11-years periodic signals on the LOD and
geomagnetic jerks and probably on the gravity too.
This 11 years’ periodic signals have been detected before in several an-
alyzings (for example Gu, 1990; Abarca del Rio et al., 2003; Wardinski
and Holme, 2003; Alexandrescu et al., 1995) and as noted at Le Mouël et
al. (2010):
“We study the evolution of the amplitude A of the semi-annual variation
of the length-of-day (lod) from 1962 to 2009. We show that A is strongly
modulated (up to 30%) by the 11-yr cycle monitored by the Sunspot number
WN.”
Dependency to the solar activity has been detected well in the LOD vari-
ation as mentioned by Ma (2007) that:
“In this present paper, wavelet technique is applied to analyse the time se-
ries of the Earth’s length-of-day series during 1832–1997 and the Sunspot
relative numbers during 1700–2006, with emphasis on investigating external
excitation source of the Earth’s variable rotation. The results show modu-
lation action from solar activity plays an important role in decadal change
of the Earth rotation, and this strengthens the conclusion that the Earth’s
rotation is modulated by the solar activity.”
Or we may refer to work “Possible influence of the 11-year solar cycle on
length-of-day change” (Ma, 2015).
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In some dates for example at epochs 1948.07.11 and 1958 and 1968.07.09
we observe that the reported amplitudes of the geomagnetic jerks are strong-
er than that of calculated by ideal Eqs. (7, 10) for geomagnetic jerk. Ac-
cording to Eq. (11), the geomagnetic jerks relevant to these three dates are
amplified by solar activity because that these events are in maximum solar
activity occurred at solar active cycle period, referring to the NASA reports
for solar activity as visible at Fig. 19. These three events have been com-
pared together before by Golovkov et al. (1989) titled as “Common features
and differences between jerks of 1949, 1958 and 1969”.
Ultimately we see a total equation for external driven interplanetary sig-
nals at the Earth so that:
This equation results four kinds of the signal at the Earth as:
1. Direct absolute effect of the Sun at the Earth interior resulting 11-years
signal,
2. Direct orbital effect of the Sun at the Earth interior resulting semi-
annual signal,
3. Indirect absolute effect of the Sun’s magnetic field through the Jupiter
resulting 11-years signal,
4. Indirect orbital effect of the Sun’s magnetic field through the Jupiter
resulting 5.9-years signal.
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Fig. 19. Strengthening of geomagnetic jerks while those are in maximum activities of
solar.
Such a mix of signals with different origins can generate apparent phase
shift in tiny intervals and such a phase shift at the 11-years and 5.9-years
signals is visible some times in the measurements. However, ultimately the
signals return to the pure 11-years and pure 5.9-years signals and now by
understanding of the real sources of the signals it is easier to discriminate
signals at observed data.
The 5.9-years period of LOD signal has been detected accurately in ex-
periments for example at Duan (2015) as quantitatively the 6-years signal,
from 1962 ∼ 2012, using normal Morlet wavelet (NMWT) method combin-
ing wavelet packet and Fourier analysis technique, for the first time in both
time and frequency domains. But in some experiments it is possible to ap-
pear phase shift in some time intervals as a deviation in the signals, however
the signals trend return to full strength in the next cycles.
While solar activity peak is adequately large, the absolute variation of
the Sun’s magnetic field is prevailing factor and apparently may be reason
to cancel 5.9-years signal as noted by Duan (2015) that:
“Gorshkov (2010) indicated that the 6 ∼7-year oscillation signals decreased
abruptly in the 1990s and speculates it is due to the stronger signals in a
2 ∼3-year band cancelling out the 6 ∼7-year signals; while, Holme and de
Viron (2013) further indicated that the “6-year oscillation” shows an ap-
parent drop in amplitude in the 1990s (but this amplitude returns to full
strength in the next cycle), and they interpreted it as the consequence.”
And at epoch 1990, the solar activity is in its maximum and then the
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Fig. 20. Annual values of activity indices. Ak(H) (blue) and Ak(D) (red) are derived from
the H- and D-components, respectively, using the Helsinki data reported by H. Nevanlinna.
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calculated amplitude by Eqs. (7, 10) and then by Eq. (11) at epoch 1969
we have almost that:
(∂Bsun /∂t)orbit (∂Bsun /∂t)absolute . (13)
And then every theory claiming to explain the solar cyclical activity is lim-
ited to this condition at Eq. (13) that averagely, the first time derivative of
the Sun’s absolute magnetic field through the Jupiter is near to its orbital
variation at Jupiter position and this equality at Eq. (13) is showing that
Sun’s magnetic field absolute variation is a noticeable effect, not a partial
change. For example, according to the Eq. (13) on the base of the orbital
variation of the Sun’s magnetic field at Jupiter position we deduce that the
Sun’s absolute magnetic field could to vary 25% at three years, when Jupiter
moves from perihelion to the aphelion. By this noticeable variation of the
Sun’s absolute magnetic field we find that solar cyclical activity should be a
large scale phenomenon at the Sun and such a great change in the magnetic
field amplitude is almost impossible by planetary sources. Of course yet,
the partial effect of the external sources is possible to influence on the gen-
eration of some sunspots at the Sun surface (Ferris, 1969). It is arresting
that the Ferris is who he has discussed the electric current induction in the
ionosphere and metallic sheets (Ferris and Price, 1965; Ferris, 1973).
On the other hand, when we see that the yearly change of the Sun’s
magnetic field is noticeable, then we can deduce a direct relation between
the solar cyclical activity and cosmic radiation. Of course, the correlation
of the solar activity and cosmic ray has been revealed by scientists before
and we may refer to the Balasubrahmanyan (1969) and a newly analysis
by Barlyaeva et al. (2014). Strongly, emissions of the matter and electro-
magnetic fields from the Sun increase during high solar activity, making
it harder for Galactic cosmic rays to reach Earth. Cosmic ray intensity is
lower when the solar activity is high.
By the way, we have revealed here again that the Sun activity relevant to
Sunspots number, approximately is proportional with first time derivative
of the Sun’s absolute magnetic field. But we can consider an accurate factor
for solar activity with Aso that with assuming a constant C we have:
A = C∂Bsun /∂t. (14)
We should notice that A is a pure factor for the solar activity value on
the base of the solar magnetic field absolute variation and this parameter A
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On the other hand, referring to the paper Duan (2015) we see the long term
decreasing trend of LOD signals about 0.05 ms during the past 50 years
and this decreasing trend should be relevant to the Earth magnetic field
strength’s decreasing trend during past 50 years and reason is that LOD
signals are relevant to turbulent frictional CMB flows which their develop-
ment amplitude is affected by the Earth’s magnetic field amplitude. Inverse
mechanism too is possible to do so that core flows are reason to explain the
variation of the axial dipole as noted by Holme and Buffett (2015) that:
“Buffett (2014) has recently provided a model in which zonal toroidal mo-
tions are associated with the excitation of a zonal poloidal instability. This
model is able to explain the broad variation of the axial dipole over the past
100 years, and also to explain feature of geomagnetic jerks that cannot be
explained by purely torsional motions.”
By comparison of the two different measurements for LOD signals and
secular variation of the geomagnetic field we obtain a relation between secu-
lar variation of 5.9 years periodic LOD signal and geomagnetic field secular
variation as visible at Fig. 21.
We see that the total intensity at Toronto has decreased 14%, from ap-
proximately 64 000 nT to 55 000 nT, during the last 160 years and long term
trend amplitude of LOD signals decreases 0.05 ms during past 50 years which
is near to 14% and too, we may refer to the axial dipole measurement of ge-
omagnetic field in comparison with 5.9 years LOD signals secular variation
visible at Fig. 22.
Schematically we see that it should be a relation between LOD variation
and geomantic field and at (Whaler and Holme, 2011) it has been discussed
before correlation between the axial dipole strength and flows in the outer
core.
The geomagnetic field is an amplifier of external driven 5.9-years signal
and this concerns to the reality that the currents are amplified and expanded
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Fig. 21. Long term trend variation of the LOD signals versus Earth secular variation of
magnetic field in Toronto.
Fig. 22. Long-term damping trend of LOD signals versus strength of the axial dipole
component of Earth’s magnetic field from 1600 to 2020 (McElhinny and McFadden, 1998).
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4. Conclusions
It is visible that some of the Earth’s interior partial core flows are external
origin phenomena as the interplanetary driven partial quasidynamo. We
have verified it on the base of the physics and experimental reports and
we see that the oscillation of the external magnetic fields affect the planets
interior too to generate partial effects similar to the geomagnetic jerks and
LOD variations and gravity anomalies. We are seeing inevitably that the
Jovian planets alignments are affecting on the amplification of these effects
and effects are dependent too to the solar activity. The quasidynamo is not
the self consistent hydromagnetic dynamo in dynamo region of the cosmic
body. In the Earth‘s core it is a partial dynamo as a perturbation on the
CMB. The Geodynamo in the Earth ‘s outer core is not of an external origin,
but some variations, for example jerks, have external causes.
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