Variations of Heat Flux and Elastic Thickness of Mercury From 3-D Thermal Evolution Modeling
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F24%3A10489920" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/24:10489920 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=zzZdZs1jWC" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=zzZdZs1jWC</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110622" target="_blank" >10.1029/2024GL110622</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Variations of Heat Flux and Elastic Thickness of Mercury From 3-D Thermal Evolution Modeling
Original language description
Mercury's low obliquity and 3:2 spin-orbit resonance create a surface temperature distribution with large latitudinal and longitudinal variations. These propagate via thermal conduction through the thin silicate shell influencing the interior temperature distribution. We use 3-D thermal evolution models to investigate the effects of lateral variations of surface temperature and crustal thickness on the surface and core-mantle boundary (CMB) heat fluxes, and elastic thickness distribution. Surface temperature variations cause a long-wavelength perturbation of the heat fluxes, as well as of the elastic lithosphere thickness, while variations in crustal thickness affect these quantities at small spatial scales. Like the surface temperature, the present-day CMB heat flux pattern is characterized primarily by spherical harmonics of degrees two and four, which could affect dynamo generation. Placing robust constraints on the thermal evolution based on the available estimates of the age and thickness of the elastic lithosphere remains challenging due to their large uncertainties.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10500 - Earth and related environmental sciences
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GN23-06513I" target="_blank" >GN23-06513I: Tidal sounding of terrestrial (exo)planets and binary asteroids</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Geophysical Research Letters
ISSN
0094-8276
e-ISSN
1944-8007
Volume of the periodical
51
Issue of the periodical within the volume
21
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
e2024GL110622
UT code for WoS article
001368074500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85208092185