Quasigeostrophic models of convection in rotating spherical shells

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Aubert, Julien ^a   Gillet, Nicolas ^b   Cardin, Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Convection; Geodynamo; Quasigeostrophic numerical models

Indexed keywords

EID: 72749120656     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GC000456     Document Type: Article

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