Three-dimensional kinematic dynamos with equatorial symmetry: Application to the magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 102, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 105-122

  Holme, Richard ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINEMATIC DYNAMO THEORY; NEPTUNE; PLANETARY MAGNETISM; URANUS;

EID: 0030834821     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(96)03257-8     Document Type: Article

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