Curie-point depth from spectral analysis of magnetic data in central-southern Europe

The basal depth of the outer layer with internal magnetic sources was calculated from magnetic data available within a roughly 500 km wide and 1200 km long area, running from central Germany to southern Italy. The dataset, deriving from different aeromagnetic surveys, is reduced to the reference altitude of 3000 m a.s.l. and a reference year of 1980.0. The adopted method, which transforms the spatial data into the frequency domain, provides a relationship between the two-dimensional spectrum of the magnetic anomalies and the top and centroid depths of the magnetic sources. The magnetic layer bottom depth (MLBD) thus obtained is 29-33 km deep in the stable areas (central Europe Variscan units, Corsica-Sardinia Variscan block) and corresponds to the Moho, having an average temperature of 560 °C. From the Alps to the Apennines, MLBD ranges between 22 and 28 km and is clearly shallower than the Moho. In these units, the wide variation of MLBD appears to be compatible with the presence of shallow magnetised bodies, consisting of lower crustal rocks (Ivrea-Verbano zone), ophiolitic units (Penninic zone and Voltri Massif) and intrasedimentary basic volcanic bodies (Po Basin). An average value of 25 km can be attributed to MLBD, which corresponds to a temperature of 550 °C. In the peri-Tyrrhenian zone and the Ligurian Sea, MLBD is below the Moho, which ranges from 17 to 20 km depth, and it has a temperature matching approximately to the Curie temperature of magnetite (580 °C).     

强震前的地磁异常现象

震前地磁Z分量的日变化异常主要表现在幅度和相位上的变化, 文中利用我国50多个地磁台多年的资料, 重点研究了1997年11月8日玛尼7.5级地震和2005年11月26日江西九江5.7级地震。 发现玛尼地震和九江地震以及大多数中强地震前, 全国地磁台站地磁Z分量日变化幅度的极小值出现时间(低点时间)在空间分布上异常特征, 即低点位移现象。 这种少见的异常现象与强震发生有较好的相关性。 发震日期为异常日后的第27天或第41天的前后4天, 强震发生地区在低点位移突变分界线附近。 结果显示, 在玛尼7.5级地震和江西九江5.7级临震前, 震中周围出现区域性Z分量日变化幅度异常现象。     

华北地区地磁前兆异常特征的研究

通过多种分析方法对华北近三十年来的中强地震前的地磁异常进行分析，发现地震的孕育、发生在时空分布上与地磁场的变化有一定的相关性。震中距200km范围内，中强地震前很多站都出现变幅不等的地磁异常变化，异常时间多数在一年内。异常形态多趋势性上升或趋势性下降。     

中低纬地区地磁脉动的研究

近年来我们对中低纬地区地磁脉动进行了大量的观测和研究。本文不仅介绍了观测仪器的设计、台网设置及数据处理方法。而且还简要地介绍了一些主要科研成果,如低纬Pc3脉动特点,低纬Pi2脉动偏振特性。南极地区的地磁脉动观测结果,以及在磁暴和太阳耀斑期间在低纬地区观测的地磁脉动。这对于进一步认识中低纬地区地磁脉动是十分有益的。     

地磁自动观测配套仪的技术设计与讨论

针对地磁观测工作流程,提出了一种简单易行、可自动观测的配套仪器设计方案。叙述了其工作原理和设计要点,得出该仪器自动化程度高,性价比高,使用简单方便,适用性广的结论。     

The Polar Cap (PC) indices: Relations to solar wind parameters and global magnetic activity

The polar geomagnetic activity resulting from solar wind–magnetosphere interactions can be characterized the Polar Cap (PC) indices, PCN and PCS. PC index values are derived from polar magnetic variations calibrated on a statistical basis such that the index approximate values in units of mV/m of the interplanetary “geo-effective” (or “merging”) electric field (E_M) conveyed by the solar wind. The timing and amplitude relations of the PC index to solar wind plasma and magnetic field parameters are reported. The solar wind effects are parameterized in terms of the geo-effective electric field (E_M) and the dynamical pressure (P_DYN). The PC index has a delayed and damped response to E_M variations and display saturation-like effects for E_M values exceeding 10 mV/m. Steady or slowly varying levels of solar wind dynamical pressure have little or no impact on the PC index above the effects related to E_M for which the solar wind velocity is also a factor. Sharp increases in the dynamical pressure generate impulsive variations in the PC index comprising a initial negative impulse of 5–10 min duration followed by a positive impulse lasting 10–20 min. Typical amplitudes of both the negative and the positive impulses are 0.2–0.5 units. A sharp decrease in the pressure produces the inverse sequence of pulses in the PC index. Auroral substorm activity represented by the AL index level has a marked influence on the average PC/E_M level at the transition from very quiet (AL0 nT) to disturbed conditions while more or less disturbed conditions (AL<−100 nT) have no systematic effect on the average PC/E_M values. At distinct substorm events the PC/E_M ratio has a minimum (0.8) in the pre-onset phase at around 20 min before substorm onset. The average ratio gradually increases in the expansion phase to reach a maximum value (1.1) at around 40 min after substorm onset (or 20 min after the largest (negative) peak in AL). At substorm recovery during the next 2 h the PC/E_M ratio decreases. Finally, we report on the application of polar magnetic variations to model the disturbance storm time (Dst) index development during magnetic storms by using the PC index as a source function to quantify the energy input to the ring current representing accumulated storm energy and characterized by the Dst index.     

60年代末与70年代末中国4个地磁台处Jerk的分析

外场的影响可以通过一定的方法从地磁月均值中消除,本文用通日月均值资料分析了广州、余山、兰州和北京的Jerk的大小．结果显示,上述4台的X和Y分量都存在二次寻数阶跃．Z分量上Jerk不明显,只有兰州和北京台较易看出60年代末的Jerk．由于本文结果是尽量消除外场影响后的结果,又是中低纬度地区的结果,所以作者认为它可支持Jerk是源于地核的推论,而且认为应将60年代末的Jerk与70年代末的Jerk一并研究．     

Convection with heat flux prescribed on the boundaries of the system. I. The effect of temperature dependence of material properties

Abstract

We study the bifurcation to steady two-dimensional convection with the heat flux prescribed on the fluid boundaries. The fluid is weakly non-Boussinesq on account of a slight temperature dependence of its material properties. Using expansions in the spirit of shallow water theory based on the preference for large horizontal scales in fixed flux convection, we derive an evolution equation for the horizontal structure of convective cells. In the steady state, this reduces to a simple nonlinear ordinary differential equation. When the horizontal scales of the cells exceed a certain critical size, the bifurcation to steady convection is subcritical and the degree of subcriticality increases with increasing cell size.     

短期重现性地磁日变化感应电流集中分布与地震关系初步研究

通过分析台站之间地磁垂直分量日变化相关性,研究中国大陆南北带地区90°E～110°E,2009～2018年地磁日变化感应电流线状集中分布现象与M_S≥6.0地震关系。统计发现,我国每月平均出现约2次感应电流集中分布现象,且10天左右内有原地重复出现现象——感应电流集中分布重叠异常,原地重现的集中分布感应电流日期间隔一般在10天左右以内,原地重现日期一般不连续,重现次数一般仅有2次。研究发现,我国南北带2009～2018年共出现重叠异常23次,20次重叠异常出现后18个月内重叠段发生M_S≥6.0地震,对应率高达87%,地震基本发生在重叠段端部250km以内,重叠段发生2次M_S≥6.0地震的比例较低,约35%;重叠段2个端部均发生M_S≥6.0地震的比例极小,仅约9%。部分重叠段走向与已经发现的上地幔和地壳高导带埋深走向基本一致,推测重叠异常发生在上地幔和地壳高导带附近,是来自上地幔和地壳内高导带附近的地震异常信息。目前已知,中国大陆强地震主要发生在上地幔高导层的隆起区一带及其壳内高导层发育地区,深部电性测深结果表明,大震易于发生在电导率急剧变化的梯度带,但这些地区何时发生地震还未得知,本文发现的重叠异常解释了这些地区1～2年内是否发生地震这一问题。     

利用地磁场总强度预测地震三要素初探

计算了河南省6个台站的相邻时段的地磁场总强度观测资料的自相关系数分析了各台自相关系数的变化与地震的关系，各台的自相关系数曲线对应地震的效果较好，发震时间一般在异常低值后1-8个月，统计得出了各台所对应的地震震级与自相关系数异常面积和震中距的经验公式，利用3个以上台站的经验公式和交汇法，即可以求出震中位置和地震震级，经震例检验，该方法基本可行。