HR: 1340h
AN: GP33C-1444 INVITED [Abstracts]
TI: Magnetic fields due to motional induction in the oceans.
AU: * Manoj, C
EM: manoj.c.nair@noaa.gov
AF: CIRES, University of Colorado, David Skaggs Research Center
NOAA/NGDC E/GC2
325 Broadway, Boulder, 80305, United States
AU: * Manoj, C
EM: manoj.c.nair@noaa.gov
AF: National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA, David Skaggs Research Center
NOAA/NGDC E/GC2
325 Broadway, Boulder, 80305, United States
AU: * Manoj, C
EM: manoj.c.nair@noaa.gov
AF: National Geophysical Research Institute, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, 500007, India
AU: Kuvshinov, A
EM: kuvshinov@erdw.ethz.ch
AF: Institut fur Geophysik L3.2, ETH Zurich, HPP Honggerberg, Zurich, 8093, Switzerland
AB:
The depth integrated ocean flow directly impacts the magnetic and electric field generation associated with the
sea water movement. The implications are that (1) the ocean flow generates non-trivial magnetic fields, and
these need to be considered while processing geomagnetic data and (2) the measured geomagnetic data
contain signatures of ocean flow and the magnetic data can possibly be used to infer the flow strength and
variability. This paper describes an overview of the recent efforts to study the motional induction due to ocean
circulation, tides and tsunami. In addition we will also discuss the attempts to recover/extract the ocean magnetic
fields from satellite magnetic data.
DE: 1500 GEOMAGNETISM AND PALEOMAGNETISM
DE: 1515 Geomagnetic induction
DE: 1541 Satellite magnetics: main field, crustal field, external field
SC: Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism [GP]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting