Reversal models from dynamo calculations

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

Volumn 358, Issue 1768, 2000, Pages 921-942

  Sarson, Graeme R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational models; Geodynamo; Reversals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348003980     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2000.0567     Document Type: Article

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