Spherical magnetic instabilities in the Earth's core and equatorial symmetries

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 153, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 83-100

  Phillips, Collin P ^a   Ivers, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Earth's core; Equatorial symmetries; Spherical magnetic instabilities

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; EARTH (PLANET); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; VECTORS; VELOCITY;

EQUATORIAL SYMMETRIES; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC EQUATIONS; SPHERICAL MAGNETIC INSTABILITIES;

GEOMAGNETISM;

CORE (PLANETARY); INSTABILITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 28444444114     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2005.05.008     Document Type: Article

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