The anisotropy of local turbulence in the Earth's core

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 277-286

  Matsushima, Masaki ^a,b   Nakajima, Takahiro ^a,c   Roberts, Paul H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CORE (PLANETARY); EARTH ROTATION; GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0032721305     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352231     Document Type: Article

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