Onset of convection with temperature- and depth-dependent viscosity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 19, 2002, Pages

  Korenaga, Jun ^a   Jordan, Thomas H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY;

2-D NUMERICAL SIMULATION; CRITICAL RAYLEIGH NUMBER; DEPTH DEPENDENTS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUID; MULTIMODAL DISTRIBUTIONS; NON-GAUSSIAN; ONSET OF CONVECTION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

VISCOSITY;

EID: 0036820011     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015672     Document Type: Article

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