Magnetic Rossby waves in the stratified ocean of the core, and topographic core-mantle coupling

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 641-649

  Braginsky, Stanislav I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; GEODYNAMICS; ROSSBY WAVE;

EID: 0032454499     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352159     Document Type: Article

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