On dynamo action produced by boundary thermal coupling

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 177, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 130-138

  Sreenivasan, Binod ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary driven thermal winds; Core mantle coupling; Dynamo action; Equipartition solution; Geodynamo; Kinetic helicity; Locking

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY-DRIVEN THERMAL WINDS; CORE-MANTLE COUPLING; DYNAMO ACTION; EQUIPARTITION SOLUTION; GEODYNAMO; KINETIC HELICITY; LOCKING;

INTERACTIVE DEVICES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; THERMAL PLUMES; WIND;

DC GENERATORS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CORIOLIS FORCE; COUPLING; GEODYNAMO; MAGNETIC FIELD; MANTLE CONVECTION; THERMAL CONVECTION; WIND FORCING;

EID: 70449535447     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2009.08.007     Document Type: Article

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