Resolving magnetic flux patches at the surface of the core

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 3071-3074

  O'Brien, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; MAGNETIC FLUX; GEOLOGY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CORE FLOW; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; FIELD MODEL; FINITE NUMBER; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; RADIAL COMPONENT;

GEOMAGNETISM;

CORE MANTLE BOUNDARY; FLUX PATCHES; LIQUID OUTER CORE; MAGNETIC FLUX DENSITY; MAGSAT MISSION;

CORE (OUTER); FLUX PATCH; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC FLUX;

EID: 0030292258     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03028     Document Type: Article

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