A critique of frozen-flux inverse modelling of a nearly steady geodynamo

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 353-365

  Love, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Core flow; Dynamo theory; Geomagnetic field; Geomagnetic secular variation

Indexed keywords

CORE (PLANETARY); FLUID FLOW; GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; SECULAR VARIATION;

EID: 0032734436     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1999.00895.x     Document Type: Article

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