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Nonlinear Modeling of the Solar Tachocline

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

M. S. Miesch*
Affiliation:
DAMTP, University of Cambridge, Silver St, Cambridge CB3 9EW, UK

Abstract

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As a first step toward a more realistic model of the solar tachocline, we report simulations of rotating, stably-stratified turbulence in a thin spherical shell.

Type
Session II: Convection Zone and Local Area Helioseismology
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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