Bottom-up control of geomagnetic secular variation by the Earth's inner core

Nature

Volumn 502, Issue 7470, 2013, Pages 219-223

  Aubert, Julien ^a   Finlay, Christopher C ^b   Fournier, Alexandre ^a  

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

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; EARTH; ECCENTRICITY; GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; INNER CORE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MELTING; SECULAR VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; GEOLOGY; LATITUDE; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84885654382     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12574     Document Type: Article

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