Global seismic body-wave observations of temporal variations in the Earth's inner core, and implications for its differential rotation

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 355-370

  Mäkinen, Anna M ^a   Deuss, Arwen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body waves; Core, outer core and inner core; Magnetic field; Seismic tomography; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; BODY WAVES; CENTRAL AFRICA; CORE, OUTER CORE AND INNER CORE; DIFFERENTIAL ROTATION; GEODYNAMO MODELS; GLOBAL DATA; INNER CORE; INNER-CORE ROTATION; KURIL ISLAND; RIGID BODY ROTATION; ROTATION RATE; SEISMIC STUDIES; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SOUTH AMERICA; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME VARIATIONS; TIME-PERIODS; TIME-SCALES; TRAVEL-TIME RESIDUALS; VANUATU;

EARTHQUAKES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; ROTATING MACHINERY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ROTATION;

BODY WAVE; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE; GEODYNAMO; HETEROGENEITY; INNER CORE; MAGNETIC FIELD; OUTER CORE; ROTATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ALASKA; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; ANTARCTICA; KURIL ISLANDS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN; SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS; UNITED STATES; VANUATU;

EID: 81155159625     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05146.x     Document Type: Article

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