Gravitational torque on the inner core and decadal polar motion

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 172, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 903-920

  Dumberry, Mathieu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dynamo: Theories and simulations; Earth rotation variations; Elasticity and anelasticity; Mantle processes

Indexed keywords

ANELASTICITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DISPLACEMENT; ELASTICITY; GEODYNAMO; GRAVITY FIELD; INERTIA; INNER CORE; POLAR MOTION; THEORETICAL STUDY; TORQUE; VECTOR;

EID: 39049126881     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03653.x     Document Type: Article

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