Structure and dynamics of the polar vortex in the Earth's core

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Sreenivasan, Binod ^a   Jones, Chris A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRANDTL NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW;

ANTICYCLONIC FLOW; ANTICYCLONIC POLAR VORTICES; EARTH OUTER CORE; GEODYNAMO SIMULATIONS; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; SPHERICAL CONVECTION-DRIVEN DYNAMO MODEL;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ANTICYCLONE; CORE (PLANETARY); GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; POLAR VORTEX;

EID: 28944433437     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023841     Document Type: Article

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