Turbulence and Small-Scale Dynamics in the Core

Treatise on Geophysics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages 187-206

  Loper, D E ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; Convection; Coriolis; Earth core; Lorentz; Magnetic field; Rotation; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882850383     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044452748-6.00131-0     Document Type: Chapter

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