Westward drift, core motions and exchanges of angular momentum between core and mantle

The westward drift of the Earth's magnetic field

E. C. Bullard, Cynthia Freedman, H. Gellman et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences · 1950 · 438 citations

Free hydromagnetic oscillations of the earth's core and the theory of the geomagnetic secular variation

R. Hide · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences · 1966 · 367 citations

On Analysis of the Secular Variation

Paul Roberts, Stephen H. Scott · Journal of geomagnetism and geoelectricity · 1965 · 332 citations · Full text

Geophysics, Engineering, Variational Analysis +14

Kinematics of Geomagnetic Secular Variation in a Perfectly Conducting Core

George E. Backus · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences · 1968 · 282 citations

Geophysics, Magnetism, Perfectly Conducting Core +8

Outer-core geostrophic flow and secular variation of Earth's geomagnetic field

Jean‐Louis Le Mouël · Nature · 1984 · 168 citations

Geophysics, Engineering, Geomagnetism +6