A dynamo model interpretation of geomagnetic field structures

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1565-1568

  Christensen, Ulrich ^a,c   Olson, Peter ^a   Glatzmaier, Gary A ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE DEVICES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SOLAR SYSTEM; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; HEAT CONVECTION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); TECTONICS; THERMAL PLUMES;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; HIGH LATITUDES; MAGNETIC REYNOLDS NUMBER; NUMERICAL DYNAMOS; SPHERICAL SHELL; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; TIME DEPENDENT;

GEOMAGNETISM;

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL DYNAMO MODELS;

DYNAMO MODEL; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD;

EID: 0032523644     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00911     Document Type: Article

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