Variability modes in core flows inverted from geomagnetic field models

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 402-420

  Pais, M A ^a   Morozova, A L ^a   Schaeffer, N ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Dynamo: theories and simulations; Earth rotation variations; Inverse theory; Rapid time variations

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

DYNAMO: THEORIES AND SIMULATIONS; EARTH ROTATION VARIATIONS; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD MODEL; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD VARIATIONS; INVERSE THEORY; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; RAPID TIME VARIATIONS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

GEOMAGNETISM;

CORE (PLANETARY); EARTH ROTATION; GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; INVERSE PROBLEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; SECULAR VARIATION;

EID: 84928597494     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggu403     Document Type: Article

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