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Takehiro Miyagoshi1, Yozo Hamano

  • 1Institute for Research on Earth Evolution, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 3173-25 Showa-machi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 236-0001, Japan.

Physical Review Letters
|October 8, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
Magnetic field dynamicsRotational speed effectsGeophysical simulationsDynamo activity

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