Gyres, jets and waves in the Earth's core

CC Finlay, N Gillet, J Aubert, PW Livermore… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Turbulent motions of liquid metal in Earth's outer core generate the geomagnetic field.
Magnetic field observations from low-Earth-orbit satellites, together with advanced numerical …

[HTML][HTML] The CHAOS-7 geomagnetic field model and observed changes in the South Atlantic Anomaly

CC Finlay, C Kloss, N Olsen, MD Hammer… - Earth, Planets and …, 2020 - Springer
We present the CHAOS-7 model of the time-dependent near-Earth geomagnetic field
between 1999 and 2020 based on magnetic field observations collected by the low-Earth …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid variations of Earth's core magnetic field

V Lesur, N Gillet, MD Hammer, M Mandea - Surveys in Geophysics, 2022 - Springer
Evidence of fast variations in the Earth's core field are seen both in magnetic observatory
and satellite records. We present here how they have been identified at the Earth's surface …

[HTML][HTML] Recent geomagnetic secular variation from Swarm and ground observatories as estimated in the CHAOS-6 geomagnetic field model

CC Finlay, N Olsen, S Kotsiaros, N Gillet… - Earth, Planets and …, 2016 - Springer
We use more than 2 years of magnetic data from the Swarm mission, and monthly means
from 160 ground observatories as available in March 2016, to update the CHAOS time …

Geomagnetic jerks and rapid hydromagnetic waves focusing at Earth's core surface

J Aubert, CC Finlay - Nature Geoscience, 2019 - nature.com
Geomagnetic jerks are abrupt changes in the second time derivative—the secular
acceleration—of Earth's magnetic field that punctuate ground observatory records. As their …

Satellite magnetic data reveal interannual waves in Earth's core

N Gillet, F Gerick, D Jault… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The Earth's magnetic field displays variations on a broad range of time scales, from years to
hundreds of millions of years. The last two decades of global and continuous satellite …

[HTML][HTML] DTU candidate field models for IGRF-12 and the CHAOS-5 geomagnetic field model

CC Finlay, N Olsen, L Tøffner-Clausen - Earth, Planets and Space, 2015 - Springer
We present DTU's candidate field models for IGRF-12 and the parent field model from which
they were derived, CHAOS-5. Ten months of magnetic field observations from ESA's Swarm …

Planetary gyre, time‐dependent eddies, torsional waves, and equatorial jets at the Earth's core surface

N Gillet, D Jault, CC Finlay - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We report a calculation of time‐dependent quasi‐geostrophic core flows for 1940–2010.
Inverting recursively for an ensemble of solutions, we evaluate the main source of …

A reduced stochastic model of core surface dynamics based on geodynamo simulations

N Gillet, L Huder, J Aubert - Geophysical Journal International, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We make use of recent geodynamo simulations to propose a reduced stochastic model of
the dynamics at the surface of Earth's core. On decadal and longer periods, this model …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive model of Earth's magnetic field determined from 4 years of Swarm satellite observations

TJ Sabaka, L Tøffner-Clausen, N Olsen… - Earth, Planets and …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract The European Space Agency's three-satellite constellation Swarm, launched in
November 2013, has provided unprecedented monitoring of Earth's magnetic field via a …