Julien Aubert, CNRS, IPG Paris

I am a CNRS senior researcher working at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), within the Geological Fluid Dynamics team. 


I am interested in the interpretation of the geomagnetic signal emanating from Earth’s liquid outer core. Over a broad range of space and time scales, this signal is a powerful probe for investigating the structure, dynamics and geological history of our planet. Understanding the geodynamo is an outstanding fundamental challenge of Physical Sciences as well as Earth Sciences. 


To this end I develop and use direct numerical computer simulations of the dynamo process, as well as data assimilation algorithms aiming at forecasting the future evolution of the geomagnetic field. This has important societal impacts as the geomagnetic field interacts with life on Earth and with human technological activities.

News

15/02/2021

Papers from the 13th generation of the International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF) are now published online.


Below are the references and links to the summary paper


Alken, P et al.:  International Geomagnetic Reference Field: the thirteenth generation, Earth Planets Space 73, 49, 2021. doi: 10.1186/s40623-020-01288-x


the evaluation technical note


Alken, P. et al.: Evaluation of candidate models for the 13th generation International Geomagnetic Reference Field, Earth Planets Space 73, 48, 2021. doi: 10.1186/s40623-020-01281-4


and the IPGP secular variation candidate model which uses the latest implementation of inverse geodynamo modelling:


Fournier, A., Aubert, J., Lesur, V., Ropp, G.:  A secular variation candidate model for IGRF-13 based on Swarm data and ensemble inverse geodynamo modelling, Earth Planets Space 73, 43, 2021. doi: 10.1186/s40623-020-01309-9




05/02/2021

The exploration of the path in parameter space to Earth’s core continues, and the next stop is at 71 percent along the road. 246 million simulation time steps and 15 million CPU hours spent over the course of two years were necessary to complete this new model, where we explore the coexistence and interaction of slow convection and rapid hydromagnetic waves in Earth’s core.


This paper has been published in Geophysical Journal International.


Aubert, J., Gillet, N.: The interplay of fast waves and slow convection in geodynamo simulations nearing Earth's core conditions, in press, Geophys. J. Int., 2021, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggab054