Abstract

Abstract The behaviour of time-varying electromagnetic fields near an island situated in a shallow ocean with a nearby continent is investigated using a scaled analogue model. To study the effect of the proximity of the continent, various island-continent distances are treated. The presence of the continent tends to augment enhancements of the field components at the island coastlines for all channel widths studied, while the island affects the enhancements of the fields over the continental coastline only for very narrow channel widths (half the island width or less), and does not affect the horizontal to vertical magnetic field ratio at the coastline at all. To examine the effect of the shape of the island, square and circular island models are used. For the frequencies studied, the island shape has little effect on the fields over the continental coastline, but over the island, the spatial variation of the fields is considerably less for the circular island than for the square island.

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