Magnetostrophic MRI in the Earth's outer core

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 15, 2008, Pages

  Petitdemange, Ludovic ^a,b   Dormy, Emmanuel ^a,b   Balbus, Steven A ^a,b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF GASES;

ASTROPHYSICAL APPLICATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL ROTATION; EARTH CORE; EARTH'S CORE; FORCE BALANCING; LIQUID CORES; MAGNETOROTATIONAL INSTABILITY; MAGNETOSTROPHIC BALANCE; PRIMARY INSTABILITY; RESISTIVE EFFECTS; ROTATION RATES; TIME-SCALES;

ROTATION;

CORE (PLANETARY); EARTH STRUCTURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MANTLE CONVECTION; OUTER CORE; RESONANCE; TIMESCALE;

EID: 53749083309     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034395     Document Type: Article

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