Articles | Volume 35, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-35-613-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-35-613-2017
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09 May 2017
Regular paper |  | 09 May 2017

Estimating a planetary magnetic field with time-dependent global MHD simulations using an adjoint approach

Christian Nabert, Carsten Othmer, and Karl-Heinz Glassmeier

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