Timescales of geomagnetic secular acceleration in satellite field models and geodynamo models

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 243-254

  Christensen, U R ^a   Wardinski, I ^b   Lesur, V ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamo: theories and simulations; Rapid time variations; Satellite magnetics

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; B SPLINES; CHARACTERISTIC TIME; CONTROL PARAMETERS; CORE FLOW; DECADAL TIMESCALE; DECREASING FUNCTIONS; DYNAMIC PROCESS; DYNAMO MODELS; DYNAMO SIMULATION; FIELD MODEL; FIELD VARIABILITY; FLOW ACCELERATION; GEODYNAMO MODELS; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; GEOMAGNETIC SECULAR VARIATION; HARMONIC DEGREE; INDUCTION EQUATIONS; LENGTH SCALE; MAGNETIC FIELD STRENGTHS; MAGNETIC REYNOLDS NUMBER; MAGNETIC VARIATION; NEAR SURFACE FLOW; RMS VELOCITIES; ROBUST ESTIMATE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE FIELDS; SCALING ANALYSIS; SECULAR VARIATION; SPECTRAL SHAPES; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; TIME DEPENDENCE; TIME DERIVATIVE; TIME VARIATIONS; TIME-SCALES;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS; GEOMAGNETISM; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NUMERICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SATELLITES;

ACCELERATION;

ADVECTION; GEODYNAMICS; GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECISION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SATELLITE DATA; SECULAR VARIATION; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIMESCALE;

EID: 84862206054     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05508.x     Document Type: Article

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