Global geomagnetic field models for the past 3000 years: Transient or permanent flux lobes?

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

Volumn 358, Issue 1768, 2000, Pages 991-1008

  Constable, Catherine G ^a   Johnson, Catherine L ^b   Lund, Steven P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Geomagnetic field modelling; Geomagnetic secular variation; Palaeomagnetism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346743237     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2000.0570     Document Type: Article

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