On the relationship between zonal jets and dynamo action in giant planets

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Heimpel, Moritz ^a   Gómez Pérez, Natalia ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; LIQUID METALS; LORENTZ FORCE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLANETS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SOLAR SYSTEM;

AXIAL MAGNETIC FIELD; AXIALLY SYMMETRIC; DIFFERENTIAL ROTATION; DIPOLAR MAGNETIC FIELDS; DYNAMICAL FEATURES; DYNAMO ACTION; DYNAMO MODELS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EQUATORIAL FLOW; GIANT PLANETS; HELIOSEISMOLOGY; HIGH VELOCITY; JUPITERS; MOVING LIQUIDS; OUTER SURFACE; REYNOLDS STRESS; SOLAR TACHOCLINE; SOURCE REGION; TACHOCLINE; TRANSITION LAYERS; ZONAL FLOWS; ZONAL JETS; ZONAL WIND;

INTERACTIVE DEVICES;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EQUATORIAL WAVE; GEODYNAMO; JET; JUPITER; MAGNETIC FIELD; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SATURN; ZONAL FLOW; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 79960487602     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047562     Document Type: Article

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