The model of the paleomagnetic secular variations: theory and implementation
Category: 13-2
UDC 550.384.3, 519.246.3, 519.258
A.V. Khokhlov
International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Abstract
The Giant Gaussian Process mathematical model of the paleomagnetc secular variations is revisited to discuss the corresponding computer implementation. The code is available via INTERNT. It comes out that magnetic excursions (previously associated with non-stationarity) can be observed in this purely stationary stochastic model. The corresponding computations will give rise the quantitative description of some specific features in sedimentary paleomagnetic data, for instance the flattening.
Keywords: magnetic field of the Earth, secular variation, paleomagnetism, stationary gaussian process, statistics on sphere.
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