Recent geodynamo simulations and observations of the geomagnetic field

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 4-1-4-53

  Kono, Masaru ^a   Roberts, Paul H ^b  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection in sphere; Dynamo models; Geomagnetic field; Magnetic field generation; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; CORE (PLANETARY); EARTH ROTATION; GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 0012573907     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000RG000102     Document Type: Article

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