A statistical analysis of polarity reversals of the geomagnetic field

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 164, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 197-207

  Sorriso Valvo, Luca ^a,b   Stefani, Frank ^c   Carbone, Vincenzo ^a,d   Nigro, Giuseppina ^a,d   Lepreti, Fabio ^a,d   Vecchio, Antonio ^e   Veltri, Pierluigi ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d CNISM   (Italy)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dynamo effect; Geomagnetism; Paleomagnetic measurements

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS;

DYNAMO EFFECT; PALEOMAGNETIC MEASUREMENTS;

GEOMAGNETISM;

GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOMAGNETISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 34548688179     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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