EPS SCI 228
Introduction to Planetary Dynamos
Description: Lecture, three hours; laboratory/discussion, 90 minutes. Requisites: courses 200A, 200B, 200C. Designed for graduate students. Basic principles of planetary dynamo generation. Planetary core dynamics and core convection; mean field dynamo theory; kinematic dynamo theory; survey of modeling techniques and results. S/U or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0