Resistive wave breaking in the Earth's outer core

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 397-411

  London, Steven D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON DOWNTOWN   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Earth's core; Hydromagnetic waves

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

EARTH CORE; ELASSER NUMBER; HYDROMAGNETIC OSCILLATION; HYDROMAGNETIC WAVES;

GEOMAGNETISM;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GEOMAGNETISM; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

CORE (PLANETARY); FLOW MODELING; OUTER CORE; WAVE BREAKING;

EID: 31144461967     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: 10290419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091920500304541     Document Type: Article

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