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07/23/2018 / By Zoey Sky

New hypothesis explains why our magnetic field is slowly drifting westward

Since humans started tracking Earth’s magnetic field for the last four centuries or so, it has steadily drifted westward. Experts have wondered about the reason for this movement, but a study presents a possible reason for the drift. The study, titled “Could hydrodynamic Rossby waves explain the westward drift?” was published in the journal Proceedings of the […]

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