On symmetry and anisotropy of Earth-core flows

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Schaeffer, N ^a   Pais, M A ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; EARTH (PLANET); GEOMAGNETISM;

ANTI-SYMMETRIC; DECADAL TIMESCALE; FLOW DYNAMICS; FLOW GRADIENTS; FLOW INVERSION; FORCE BALANCES; GEOMAGNETIC DATA; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIQUID CORES; MAGNETIC INDUCTION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; SECULAR VARIATION; SPATIAL SCALE; TIME-SCALES;

ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPY; DECADAL VARIATION; EARTH STRUCTURE; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; SATELLITE DATA; SECULAR VARIATION; TIMESCALE;

EID: 79957940690     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL046888     Document Type: Article

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