Magnetohydrodynamic “Shallow Water” Equations for the Solar Tachocline
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- 20 November 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 544 (1) , L79-L82
- https://doi.org/10.1086/317291
Abstract
We argue that the classical "shallow water" equations of geophysical fluid dynamics should be useful for studying the global dynamics of the solar tachocline and demonstrate the existence of an MHD analog that would allow taking into account the strong toroidal magnetic field likely to be present there.Keywords
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