The geomagnetic secular-variation timescale in observations and numerical dynamo models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Lhuillier, Florian ^a   Fournier, Alexandre ^a   Hulot, Gauthier ^a   Aubert, Julien ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DC GENERATORS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE DEVICES;

DYNAMO SIMULATION; GEOMAGNETIC DATA; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; NON-DIPOLE; NUMERICAL DYNAMOS; POWER-SPECTRA; SATELLITE FIELDS; SECULAR VARIATION; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; TIME AXIS; TIME-AVERAGED; TIME-SCALES;

GEOMAGNETISM;

DATA ASSIMILATION; GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SECULAR VARIATION; TIMESCALE;

EID: 79955850521     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047356     Document Type: Article

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