Consistency between the flow at the top of the core and the frozen-flux approximation

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1219-1229

  Whaler, Kathy A ^a   Holme, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Core surface flow modelling; Frozen flux hypothesis

Indexed keywords

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; FLOW MODELING; MAGNETIC FIELD; OUTER CORE; SECULAR VARIATION; TIMESCALE;

EID: 39449099038     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352070     Document Type: Article

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