摘要
The monthly means of north component X of geomagnetic field from 16 observatories during 1984-1988 were analyzed using the Sompi spectral analysis technique. Most of these observatories are located in China. The analysis of the semiannual variations indicates that the latitude has no apparent effect on the X component. This clearly implies that the source field mode of semiannual variations cannot simply be described by using the P°1 mode. Using the P°1 mode to estimate the inductive scale length C in the semiannual period, the value of C at each observatory would be biased significantly. The purpose of this study is to find which kind of modes is optimal for estimating the values of C corresponding to the semiannual variations. The results show that a composite mode, involving five terms P°n(n = 1,....,5), might be a reasonable and acceptable one.
The monthly means of north component X of geomagnetic field from 16 observatories during 1984-1988 were analyzed using the Sompi spectral analysis technique. Most of these observatories are located in China. The analysis of the semiannual variations indicates that the latitude has no apparent effect on the X component. This clearly implies that the source field mode of semiannual variations cannot simply be described by using the P°1 mode. Using the P°1 mode to estimate the inductive scale length C in the semiannual period, the value of C at each observatory would be biased significantly. The purpose of this study is to find which kind of modes is optimal for estimating the values of C corresponding to the semiannual variations. The results show that a composite mode, involving five terms P°n(n = 1,....,5), might be a reasonable and acceptable one.
