Simple mechanism for reversals of earth's magnetic field

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 14, 2009, Pages

  Pétrélis, François ^a   Fauve, Stéphan ^a   Dormy, Emmanuel ^a,b   Valet, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRANDTL NUMBER;

DYNAMICAL REGIME; DYNAMO EFFECT; EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC PRANDTL NUMBERS; SODIUM EXPERIMENTS;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 64649093185     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.144503     Document Type: Article

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