Stationary, oscillating or drifting mantle-driven geomagnetic flux patches?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Amit, Hagay ^a,b   Aubert, Julien ^a   Hulot, Gauthier ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; HEAT FLUX; LOWER MANTLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOMAGNETISM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRIFT BEHAVIOR; MANTLE PROCESS; OSCILLATION; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; TIMESCALE;

EID: 77955182333     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JB006542     Document Type: Article

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