Convection-driven geodynamo models

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

Volumn 358, Issue 1768, 2000, Pages 873-897

  Jones, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamo; Earth's core; Rotating convection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346112649     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2000.0565     Document Type: Article

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