The Riga dynamo experiment

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 247-267

  Gailitis, Agris ^a   Lielausis, Olgerts ^a   Platacis, Ernests ^a   Gerbeth, Gunter ^b   Stefani, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamo; Magnetic field

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; DC GENERATORS; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LIQUID METALS; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTING FLUIDS;

GEOPHYSICS;

GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC FIELD;

EID: 0041416160     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024851818821     Document Type: Article

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