Transmission Line Modelling of Geomagnetic Induction in the Ocean/Earth Conductivity Structure

During geomagnetic disturbances, electric fields induced in the Earth and in power systems, pipelines and submarine cables can interfere with the operation of these systems. Calculations for submarine cables are complicated by the need to consider not just the induction directly into the cable but also the earth potentials produced at the coast at each end of the cable. To determine the coast potentials, we present a new model of the ocean and earth conductivity structure that spans the whole length of a cable from one coast to another. Calculations are based on the generalised thin sheet approach introduced by Ranganayaki and Madden but converted to a transmission line model that can be solved using standard circuit theory techniques. It is shown how the transmission line model can be used to calculate the earth potential profile from one side of an ocean or sea to the other. Example calculations are presented for a shallow sea, a shallow ocean, and a deep ocean that are simplified approximations to the North Sea, Tasman Sea and Pacific Ocean and show that the peak potentials occur at the coast. An examination is also made of how the width of a shallow sea and the width of the continental shelf affect these coast potentials. The modelling technique and example results provide a guide for more detailed modelling of geomagnetic induction along the routes of specific submarine cables.

Geomagnetic vertical transfer function revealed from multi-interval geomagnetic data

The geomagnetic vertical transfer functions(VTFs)are useful to constrain the conductivity structure in the deep Earth.In this study,we propose an approach of estimating the geomagnetic VTFs in the wide:period range from the multi-interval geomagnetic data.Applying the above method to the different interval(such as one-second,one-minute,one-hour)data from some geomagnetic observatories in China,we obtain the corresponding VTFs in the wide period range from 64 s to 9,830,400 s.In order to evaluate the possible ocean effect on different observatories,we make close investigations of the real geomagnetic induction vectors at QZH,SYG and XIC observatories.The results indicate that the ocean effect is clear at the coastal observatory like QZH.However,the ocean effect tends to decrease for the inland observatories(such as SYG and XIC)with the increasing distance from the coast.

Research on earthquake prediction from geomagnetic pulsation

This paper has presented a research on the method of using digitized data of geomagnetic pulsation observation to predict earthquakes and the research results.According to the theory of inductive magnetic effect,the observation of geomagnetic pulsation events can detect the preseismic conductivity and structure anomalies of subsurface media more effectively than the conventional geomagnetic observations,especially the short-impending anomalies before earthquakes.Our research results have also indicated that the geomagnetic pulsation transfer function has obvious short-impending anomalies and typical anomaly forms before earthquakes.Using the proposed method,satisfactory prediction results have been obtained.