Small-scale structure of the geodynamo inferred from Oersted and Magsat satellite data

Nature

Volumn 416, Issue 6881, 2002, Pages 620-623

  Hulot, Gauthier ^a   Eymin, Céline ^a   Langlais, Benoît ^a   Mandea, Mioara ^a   Olsen, Nils ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b Center for Planetary Science   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SATELLITES; VORTEX FLOW;

PALAEOMAGNETIC FIELDS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

CORE (PLANETARY); GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; SATELLITE DATA;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; GEOLOGY; LATITUDE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEASUREMENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA; TELECOMMUNICATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037061424     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/416620a     Document Type: Article

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