An Earth-like numerical dynamo model

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6649, 1997, Pages 371-374

  Kuang, Weijia ^a   Bloxham, Jeremy ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DYNAMO THEORY; FLUID FLOW; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SIMULATION; THEORY;

EID: 0030830037     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/38712     Document Type: Article

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