Azimuthal winds, convection and dynamo action in the polar regions of planetary cores

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 100, Issue 4-5, 2006, Pages 319-339

  Sreenivasan, Binod ^a   Jones, Chris A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Convection; Earth's core; Magnetic mode; Polar vortex; Tangent cylinder

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; VORTEX FLOW;

MAGNETIC MODE; POLAR VORTEX; TANGENT CYLINDER; THERMAL CONVECTION;

WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; VORTEX FLOW; WIND;

AZIMUTH; CONVECTION; CORE (PLANETARY); GEODYNAMO; POLAR REGION; POLAR VORTEX; WIND FORCING;

EID: 33845533451     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: 10290419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091920600807864     Document Type: Conference Paper

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