Gravity variations induced by core flows

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 635-650

  Dumberry, Mathieu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Core, outer core and inner core; Dynamo: theories and simulations; Gravity anomalies and earth structure; Time variable gravity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORE (PLANETARY); CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DETECTION METHOD; EARTH STRUCTURE; GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GRAVITY ANOMALY; GRAVITY FIELD; GRAVITY FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PRESSURE EFFECT; PRESSURE FIELD; SATELLITE MISSION; SECULAR VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOKES FORMULA; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; TIMESCALE;

EID: 74549126680     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04437.x     Document Type: Article

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