日本地球惑星科学連合2018年大会

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[S-IT22] 核-マントルの相互作用と共進化

2018年5月24日(木) 09:00 〜 10:30 国際会議室(IC) (幕張メッセ国際会議場 2F)

コンビーナ:飯塚 毅(東京大学)、渋谷 秀敏(熊本大学大学院先端科学研究部基礎科学部門地球環境科学分野)、土屋 卓久(愛媛大学地球深部ダイナミクス研究センター、共同)、太田 健二(東京工業大学大学院理工学研究科地球惑星科学専攻)、座長:出倉 春彦山崎 大輔

10:00 〜 10:15

[SIT22-35] Temperature perturbation at ICB induced by CMB heat flux variation in numerical dynamos

*松井 宏晃1出倉 春彦2土屋 卓久2 (1.Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis、2.愛媛大学地球深部ダイナミクス研究センター)

キーワード:ダイナモシミュレーション、内核-外核境界

Recent seismic tomographies suggests that seismic velocity variation at the bottom of mantle is dominated by degree 2 component of the spherical harmonics. It is widely considered that this variation corresponds to the heat flux variation at the core mantle boundary (CMB), and that convection of iron alloy and geodynamo are also under the influence on this heat flux variations. Furthermore, seismic observation also suggests that inner core has seismic velocity anomaly with degree 1 of the spherical harmonics. These seismic heterogenities are generated by the thermal or compositional heterogenieties at the CMB and inner core, and convection in the outer core is under the influence of these heterogenieties. In the present study, we investigate how much thermal heterogeneity at CMB can generate the thermal heterogeneity at the ICB by using a numerical dynamo model.

In the present study, we perform dynamo simulations with changing amplitude of the heat flux variation at CMB with fixing dimensionless numbers. We choose the Y22 component of the spherical harmonics for the heat flux variation. The amplitude of the perturbation q* is defined by ratio of the perturbation to the average heat flux at CMB.

The results suggests that the temperature perturbation with Y22 component at ICB is generated by the given heat flux variation at CMB. However, the amplitude of the Y22 component is approximately 30% of the temperature perturbation with Y20 component which is generated by the convection of the outer core. In the present simulations, magnetic field is not sustained in the cases with q* > 1.403. By exploration of the results with sustaining the magnetic field, the Y22 component of the temperature perturbation will exceed the Y20 component at ICB in q* >130.