A test of the frozen-flux approximation using a new geodynamo model

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

Volumn 358, Issue 1768, 2000, Pages 1109-1121

  Roberts, Paul H ^a   Glatzmaier, Gary A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulations; Frozen flux; Geodynamo

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346743200     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2000.0576     Document Type: Article

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