Planetary dynamos: Effects of electrically conducting flows overlying turbulent regions of magnetic field generation

Icarus

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 305-315

  Schubert, Gerald ^a   Chan, Kit H ^b   Liao, Xinhao ^c   Zhang, Keke ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geophysics; Magnetic fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 11144347088     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2004.06.007     Document Type: Article

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