Geomagnetic reversals and the stochastic exit problem

Europhysics Letters

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 177-183

  Hoyng, P ^a   Duistermaat, J J ^b  

^a SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 7444262952     PISSN: 02955075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2004-10243-1     Document Type: Article

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