Crustal concealing of small-scale core-field secular variation

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 361-366

  Hulot, Gauthier ^a   Olsen, Nils ^b   Thébault, Erwan ^a   Hemant, Kumar ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamo: Theories and simulations; Magnetic anomalies: Modelling and interpretation; Satellite magnetics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORE (PLANETARY); GEODYNAMO; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIZATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SECULAR VARIATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 64849094034     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04119.x     Document Type: Article

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