The origin of geomagnetic jerks

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6911, 2002, Pages 65-68

  Bloxham, Jeremy ^a   Zatman, Stephen ^a   Dumberry, Mathieu ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; TORSIONAL STRESS;

GEOMAGNETIC JERKS;

GEOMAGNETISM;

CORE (PLANETARY); GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; OSCILLATING FLOW; SECULAR VARIATION; STEADY FLOW;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; FLUID FLOW; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

EID: 0037038427     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01134     Document Type: Article

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