On the characteristics of successive geomagnetic jerks

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 723-732

  Le Huy, Minh ^a,b   Alexandrescu, Mioara ^a   Hulot, Gauthier ^a   Le Mouël, Jean Louis ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b Institute of Geophysics   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ROTATION; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 0032461138     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352165     Document Type: Article

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