Invariants in toroidal and tangentially geostrophic frozen-flux velocity fields

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 925-927

  Jackson, Andrew ^a   Hide, Raymond ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Earth's core; Earth's magnetic field; Geomagnetic field; Geomagnetism

Indexed keywords

CORE; FROZEN FLUX; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; GEOSTROPHIC MOTION; INVARIANT; TOROIDAL MOTION;

EID: 0029769172     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1996.tb06035.x     Document Type: Article

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