Core flow inversion tested with numerical dynamo models

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 485-497

  Rau, Steffen ^a,b   Christensen, Ulrich ^a,b   Jackson, Andrew ^a,b   Wicht, Johannes ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Core flow; Geodynamo; Inverse theory; Secular variation

Indexed keywords

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

EID: 0034026755     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2000.00097.x     Document Type: Article

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