Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/B500131/1
Self-Organisation in Geomagnetic Secular Variation.
Fellowship Award
- Fellow:
- Dr ART Jonkers, University of Liverpool, Earth Surface Dynamics
- Grant held at:
- University of Liverpool, Earth Surface Dynamics
- Science Area:
- Earth
- Atmospheric
- Overall Classification:
- Earth
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Science Topics:
- Planetary science
- Mantle & Core Processes
- Upper Atmos Process & Geospace
- Abstract:
- The geodynamo, which generates the Earth's magnetic field in the liquid outer core, is still poorly understood. Novel statistical techniques from Complexity Theory, applied to global geomagnetic secular variation, can determine whether this system is self-organised (critically poised just below the edge of chaos), rather than chaotic (as hitherto assumed in numerical simulations). If so, the self-organised dynamics recently found in the paleomagnetic reversal record would extend to the timescale of core flow, imposing strong, quantified, spatio-temporal constraints on future dynamo modelling, and providing a theoretical basis for integrating the main geomagnetic subdisciplines.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/B500131/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Postdoctoral Fellowship
This fellowship award has a total value of £117,941
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs |
|---|---|
| £89,441 | £28,500 |
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