On Ohmic heating in the Earth's core I: Nutation constraints

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 367-382

  Jackson, Andrew ^a   Livermore, Philip ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamo: Theories and simulations; Electromagnetic theory; Heat flow

Indexed keywords

CORE (PLANETARY); CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DISSIPATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; GEODYNAMO; HEAT FLOW; MAGNETIC FIELD; THEORETICAL STUDY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 64849086166     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.04008.x     Document Type: Article

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