Dynamo Models for Planets Other Than Earth |
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Authors: | Sabine Stanley Gary A Glatzmaier |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George St., Toronto, ON, M5S1A7, Canada 2. Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, Earth and Marine Sciences Building, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA
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Abstract: | Observations from planetary spacecraft missions have demonstrated a spectrum of dynamo behaviour in planets. From currently active dynamos, to remanent crustal fields from past dynamo action, to no observed magnetization, the planets and moons in our solar system offer magnetic clues to their interior structure and evolution. Here we review numerical dynamo simulations for planets other than Earth. For the terrestrial planets and satellites, we discuss specific magnetic field oddities that dynamo models attempt to explain. For the giant planets, we discuss both non-magnetic and magnetic convection models and their ability to reproduce observations of surface zonal flows and magnetic field morphology. Future improvements to numerical models and new missions to collect planetary magnetic data will continue to improve our understanding of the magnetic field generation process inside planets. |
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