Electromagnetically driven westward drift and inner-core superrotation in Earth's core

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 40, 2013, Pages 15914-15918

  Livermore, Philip W ^a   Hollerbach, Rainer ^a,b   Jackson, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Geodynamo; Geomagnetism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FLOW KINETICS; GEOLOGY; HISTORICAL PERIOD; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TORQUE;

GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETISM;

EARTH (PLANET); ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA; GEOLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ROTATION; TORQUE;

EID: 84885074889     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1307825110     Document Type: Article

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