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The Geodynamo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

P.H. Roberts*
Affiliation:
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics University of California Los Angeles, CA90024, USA

Abstract

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A comparison is made of the differences and similarities between the solar dynamo and the geodynamo. Special attention is paid to the energetics, the dynamics, the role of turbulence, and the α- and ω-sources in these dynamos.

Type
10. Geodynamo and Planetary Dynamos
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1993 

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