Time and length scales of buoyancy-driven flow structures in a rotating hydromagnetic fluid

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 307-329

  Shimizu, Hisayoshi ^a,b   Loper, David E ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coriolis forces; Earth's core; Lorentz forces

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY DRIVEN FLOW; CORE;

EID: 0031421618     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(97)00035-6     Document Type: Article

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