Probing Earth's dynamo

Peter Olson ()
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Peter Olson: Johns Hopkins University

Nature, 1997, vol. 389, issue 6649, 337-338

Abstract: Most of the planets in the Solar System, Earth included, have magnetic fields that originate from self-sustaining dynamos. The inner workings of such dynamos are not at all clear, however, not least because it is not possible to carry out meaningful experiments to address the issue. A way forward is to use numerical simulations of the main parameters involved, and two new examples of such work provide a happy combination of characteristics that allow them to be tested against one another.

Date: 1997
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