Notes on the 1975 summer study program in geophysical fluid dynamics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Notes on the 1975 summer study program in geophysical fluid dynamics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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1975
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Malkus, Willem V. R.
Thayer, Mary C.
Thayer, Mary C.
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10.1575/1912/3003
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The central topic of this seventeenth Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
program was fluid motion in the earth's mantle and core. Our principal
lecturer, Dan McKenzie, first addressed himself to the task of separating
solid behavior of the mantle from fluid behavior. When the level of protest
diminished Dan advanced to his numerical studies of mantle convection.
The relationship of these numerical experiments and geophysical observables
was impressive indeed for this first generation of mantle modeling.
Intertwined seminars from P. Molnar, B. Parsons, J. Sclater and
T. Atwater exposed us to data gathering and its rationale at the frontiers
of geophysics.
The fluid properties of the core may be less suspect than those of
the mantle, but how and why the core fluid moves is still a mystery. Our
associate principal lecturer, Fritz Busse, discussed the geomagnetic evidence
for core motion. Then moving quickly to the more abstract problems
of model geodynamos, Fritz described in five lectures his achievement of
a first complete dynamic dynamo driven by convection.
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Malkus, W. V. R., & Thayer, M. C. (1975). Notes on the 1975 summer study program in geophysical fluid dynamics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. https://doi.org/10.1575/1912/3003