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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 42, Issue 9, Pages 3338-3346Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063397
Keywords
electromagnetic induction; satellite; Swarm; electrical conductivity; temperature
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- Centre National des Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
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We present a 1-D electrical conductivity profile of the Earth's mantle down to 2000km derived from L1b Swarm satellite magnetic field measurements from November 2013 to September 2014. We first derive a model for the main magnetic field, correct the data for a lithospheric field model, and additionally select the data to reduce the contributions of the ionospheric field. We then model the primary and induced magnetospheric fields for periods between 2 and 256days and perform a Bayesian inversion to obtain the probability density function for the electrical conductivity as function of depth. The conductivity increases by 3 orders of magnitude in the 400-900km depth range. Assuming a pyrolitic mantle composition, this profile is interpreted in terms of temperature variations leading to a temperature gradient in the lower mantle that is close to adiabatic.
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