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TITLE: Jerks as Guiding Influences on the Global Environment: Effects on the Solid Earth, Its Angular Momentum
and Lithospheric Plate Motions, the Atmosphere, Weather, and Climate
PRESENTATION TYPE: Assigned by Committee (Oral or Poster)
CURRENT SECTION/FOCUS GROUP: Atmospheric Sciences (A)
CURRENT SESSION: A10. Atmospheric Circulations and Climate Change
AUTHORS (FIRST NAME, LAST NAME): John M Quinn1, Bruce Allen Leybourne2
INSTITUTIONS (ALL): 1. Director, Solar-Terrestrial Environmental Research Institute, Lakewood, CO, United
States.
2. President, Climate-Stat, Inc., Bay St. Louis, MS, United States.
ABSTRACT BODY: Jerks are thought to be the result of torques applied at the core-mantle boundary (CMB) caused
by either of two possible processes, working together or separately: 1) Electromagnetic Induction and 2) Mechanical
Slippage. In the first case, it is thought that electromagnetic energy slowly builds-up at the CMB, reaches some critical
level, and is then suddenly released, causing a geomagneticly induced torque at the CMB due to the differential
electrical conductivity between the lower mantle and the surface of the outer core. The second case is driven by stress
and strain increases that buildup mechanical potential energy, which is released when a critical level is reached,
thereby generating a torque at the CMB. Generally, a trigger is required to start the Jerk process in motion. In the
electromagnetic case, it is suggested that energy from the Sun may supply the requisite energy buildup that is
subsequently released by a magnetic storm trigger, for instance. In the case of mechanical slippage, bari-center motion
among the Earth, Moon, and Sun, as well as tidal forces and mass redistributions through Earth's wobbles combine to
provide the accumulated stress/strain buildup and subsequent trigger. The resulting fluid flow changes at the CMB
result in geomagnetic field changes and Joule heating throughout the solid Earth, its oceans, and atmosphere. It is
shown that the Global Temperature Anomaly (GTA), which is measured at Earth's surface, correlates with changes in
the geomagnetic non-dipole moment, and thus with core fluid motions. This links Global Warming and weather with
core processes, important examples being the 1930's Dust Bowl Era and the 1947 Impulse. The CMB torque also
affects Earth's angular momentum. But it appears that magnetic storms can as well. As a consequence, the Jet Stream,
atmospheric circulation patterns, and the Global Oscillation System (i.e., El-Nino/Southern-Oscillation, North Atlantic
Oscillation, the Pacific Decade Oscillation, etc.) are modulated. These parameters in turn affect the weather and
climate (e.g., the Dust Bowl Era, El Ninos, La Ninas, and hurricanes). The stress/strain within the Earth leads to Earth
torsion, vibration, and mass redistribution, which leads to tectonic plate motion, seismicity, volcanism, and gravity
waves, which drive atmospheric circulation and the teleconnection processes (i.e., a redistribution of magma beneath
the plates) via surge tectonics. Various other connections among these processes and parameters will be discussed.
Contact Information
John M. Quinn, Lakewood, Colorado, USA, 80228-4954, click here to send an email
INDEX TERMS: [0350] ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE / Pressure, density, and
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