Investigating the 2003 geomagnetic jerk by simultaneous inversion of the secular variation and acceleration for both the core flow and its acceleration

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 198-199, Issue , 2012, Pages 28-50

  Silva, Luís ^a,b   Hulot, Gauthier ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Core flow accelerations; Core flows; Geomagnetic jerks; Secular acceleration; Secular variation

Indexed keywords

CORE FLOW; CORE SURFACE FLOWS; EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD; FLOW ACCELERATION; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; GEOMAGNETIC JERKS; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; SATELLITE DATA; SECULAR VARIATION; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; TIME VARYING; TORSIONAL OSCILLATION; ZONAL FLOWS;

GEOMAGNETISM; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

ACCELERATION;

ACCELERATION; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; SATELLITE DATA; SECULAR VARIATION; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 84860507102     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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