Fast equatorial waves propagating at the top of the Earth's core

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3321-3329

  Chulliat, Arnaud ^a,b   Alken, Patrick ^a,b   Maus, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth's core; geomagnetic jerks; Rossby waves; secular variation; Swarm

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETISM; SURFACE WAVES;

EARTH'S CORE; GEOMAGNETIC JERKS; ROSSBY WAVE; SECULAR VARIATION; SWARM;

MECHANICAL WAVES;

ACCELERATION; CORE (PLANETARY); EARTH; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; ROSSBY WAVE; SYMMETRY; WAVE MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 84930449753     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064067     Document Type: Article

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