Blob instability in rotating compositional convection

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 135-138

  Claßen, Sabine ^a   Heimpel, Moritz ^a,b   Christensen, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; CORIOLIS FORCE; ROTATING FLOW;

CORIOLIS FORCE; EARTH ROTATION; MANTLE CONVECTION;

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

CYLINDRICAL ANNULUS; EKMAN NUMBERS; HELICAL MOTION; MUSH LIQUID INTERFACES; POLAR REGIONS; ROTATING SYSTEMS; SMALL-SCALE FLOWS;

CORIOLIS FORCE;

EID: 0344327104     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900227     Document Type: Article

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