Order and disorder in planetary dynamos : summer study program in geophysical fluid dynamics

• Main Authors: Malkus, Willem V. R., Berry, Mary Evans
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 1988
• Subjects: Dynamo theory; Cosmic physics; Cosmic magnetic fields; Magnetic fields; Antarctic; Bayly; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1912/2919

Our principal lecturer, Stephen Childress, can be seen emerging from the "magnetic cottage" he constructed to edify those of us who attended G.F.D. '87. His central theme was the kinematic properties of the "fast" dynamo, one whose growth rate is insensitive to electrical co...