Scale disparities and magnetohydrodynamics in the Earth's core

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1768, 2000, Pages 899-920

  Zhang, Keke ^a   Gubbins, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Earth's core; Geodynamo; Magnetoconvection; Taylor constraint

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346112648     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2000.0566     Document Type: Article

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