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In Paper III (Mohandis [1]2) we considered the sudden introduction of amagnetic dipole in the earth's core to act as a source of disturbance to the exitation field taken as a poloidal one. A symmetrical case was considered where the dipole axis is placed parallel to the original field and perpendicular to the earth's mantle. In the present work, we consider an unsymmetric case where the axis of themagnetic dipole is placed perpendicular to both the mantle and the exitation field which is taken as a toroidal one. A mathematical study is made for the resulting fluid motion in the core as well as for the generated hydromagnetic perturbations in both the mantle and the earth's fluid core. A more powerful method has been adopted than those used in previous cases.
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El Mohandis, M.G.S. Magnetohydrodynamic disturbances in the earth's core, IV. PAGEOPH 74, 45–56 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00875186
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