Flow throughout the earth's core inverted from geomagnetic observations and numerical dynamo models

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 537-556

  Aubert, Julien ^a  

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

Author keywords

Dynamo; Inverse theory; Rapid time variations.; Theories and simulations

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COREMAKING; DC GENERATORS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; STATISTICAL PHYSICS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM CONSERVATION; EQUATORIAL SYMMETRIES; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD MODEL; GEOMAGNETIC OBSERVATION; INVERSE THEORY; RAPID TIME VARIATIONS; STATISTICAL DEVIATIONS; THEORIES AND SIMULATIONS;

GEOMAGNETISM;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BUOYANCY; COMPLEXITY; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; GYRE; INNER CORE; SECULAR VARIATION;

EID: 84876836929     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggs051     Document Type: Article

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