The paper "The inherent instability of axisymmetric magnetostrophic dynamo models", written by Colin Hardy, Phil Livermore and myself, is now published online in the journal Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics.

Link (open access): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03091929.2022.2148666

Below I will give a (relatively) non-technical explanation of some background of our paper.

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The inherent instability of axisymmetric magnetostrophic dynamo models

Recent studies have demonstrated the possibility of constructing magnetostrophic dynamo models, which describe the slowly evolving background state of Earth's magnetic field when inertia and viscos...

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