Peter L. Olson Professor
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Academic Background | Research Interests | Publications | CV

Publications

Some Recent Publications by Peter Olson

Mantle Convection in the Earth and Planets, with G. Schubert and D. Turcotte, 940pp, Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Aubert, J., Amit, H., Hulot, G., and Olson, P., Thermo-chemical wind flows couple Earth’s inner core growth to mantle heterogeneity, Nature, in press, 2008.

Amit, H., Aubert, J., Hulot, G. and P. Olson, Influence of lower mantle thermal heterogeneity on time-average core flow, Earth Planet. Sci., in press, 2008.

Olson, P. Review of “New Theory of the Earth”, Physics Today, p. 68, April 2008.  [pdf]

Amit, H. and P. Olson, Geomagnetic Dipole Tilt Changes Induced by Core Flow, Phys. Earth. Planet. Inter., doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2008.01.007, 2008.

Olson, P., Gravitational Dynamos and the Low Frequency Geomagnetic Secular Variation, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. , doi:10.1073/pnas.0709081104, 2007. [pdf]

Cardin, P. and P. Olson, Experiments on Core Dynamics, Chapter 8.11 in Volume 8 of the Treatise on Geophysics (G. Schubert, main ed.) Elsevier, Amsterdam, 319-345, 2007.

Olson, P. Overview on Core Dynamics, Chapter 8.01 in Volume 8 of the Treatise on Geophysics (G. Schubert, main ed.) Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1-31, 2007. 

Courtillot, V. and P. Olson, Mantle Plumes Link Magnetic Superchrons to Phanerozoic Mass Depletion Events, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 260, 495-504, 2007.  [pdf]

Christensen, U.R., J. Aubert, and P. Olson, Convection-driven planetary dynamos. Proceedings IAU Symposium, 239, 1-8, 2007.

Amit, H., P. Olson and U. Christensen, Tests of core flow imaging methods using numerical dynamo models, Geophys J. Int, 168, 27-39, 2007.  [pdf]

Olson, P. John Verhoogen, in Encyclopedia of Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism, eds..D. Gubbins & E. Herrero-Bervera, Springer, Dordrecht, 979-980, 2007.

Olson, P. Thermal Wind, in Encyclopedia of Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism, eds.,   D. Gubbins & E. Herrero-Bervera, Springer, Dordrecht, 495-497, 2007.

Olson, P., and U.R. Christensen, Dipole Moment Scaling for Convection-Driven Planetary Dynamos, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 250, 561-571, 2006. [pdf]

Olson, P and H. Amit, Changes in Earth’s Dipole, Naturwissenschaften, doi.org/10.1007/s00114-006-0138-6, 2006.  [pdf]

Amit, H. and P. Olson, Time-average and time-dependent parts of core flow, Phys Earth Planet Inter., 155, 120-139, 2006.  [pdf] 

Amit, H. and P. Olson, Time-average and time-dependent parts of core flow, Phys Earth Planet Inter., (submitted 2005).  [pdf]  

Olson, P and H. Amit, The Earth’s Changing Dipole, Naturwissenschaften (submitted, 2005). 

Glatzmaier, G. and P. Olson, Probing the Geodynamo, Scientific American, 292, 50-57, 2005.  [pdf]

Amit, H. and P. Olson, Helical core flow from geomagnetic secular variation, Phys Earth Planet Inter., 147,1-25, 2004.  [pdf] 

Schubert, G., G. Masters, P. Tackley and P. Olson, Superplumes or plume clusters? Phys Earth Planet Inter., doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2003.09.025, 2004.  [pdf]

Wicht, J. and P. Olson, A Detailed study of the polarity reversal mechanism in a numerical dynamo model, Geochemistry, Geodynamics, Geosystems, 5 doi 10.1029/2003GC000602, 2004.  [pdf]

Sumita, I. and P. Olson, Experiments on highly supercritical thermal convection in a rapidly rotating hemispherical shell, J. Fluid Mech., 492, 271-287, 2003.

Christensen, U.R. and Olson, P., Secular variation in numerical geodynamo models with lateral variations of boundary heat flow, Phys Earth Planet Inter., 138, 39-54, 2003.  [pdf] 

Aurnou, J., Andreadis, S., Zhu, L. and P. Olson, Experiments on convection in Earth's core tangent cylinder, Earth Planet Sci Lett, 212, 119-134, 2003.  [pdf] 

Olson, P., and U.R. Christensen, The time averaged magnetic field in numerical dynamos with nonuniform boundary heat flow, Geophys. J. Int., 151, 809-823, 2002.  [pdf] 

Olson, P., I. Sumita and J. Aurnou, Diffusive magnetic images of core upwellings, J. Geophys. Res., 107, 10.1029/ JB000384, 2002.

Olson, P. Thermal Interaction of the Core and Mantle, in Earth's Core and Lower Mantle,  C. A. Jones, A. M. Soward and K. Zhang, eds. Taylor and Francis, London, 1-29, 2003.

Olson, P., and U. R. Christensen, The time averaged magnetic field in numerical dynamos with nonuniform boundary heat flow, Geophys. J. Int., 151, 809-823, 2002.

Olson, P. The Disappearing Dipole, Nature, 416, 590-591, 2002.

Olson, P. Mantle Convection and Plumes, Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology 3rd ed., R. A. Meyers, ed. 9, 77-94, 2002.

Sumita, I. and P. Olson, Rotating thermal convection in a hemispherical shell with heterogeneous boundary heat flux: implications for the Earth’s core, J Geophys. Res., 107, 10.1029, 2002.

Brito, D., Elbert, D. and Olson, P., Experimental crystallization of gallium: ultrasonic measurements of elastic anisotropy and implications for the inner core , Phys. Earth Planet Inter., 129, 325-346, 2002.

Aurnou, J. and P. Olson, Strong zonal winds generated by thermal convection in rotating spherical shells, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 2557-2559, 2001.

Aurnou, J. and P. Olson, Experiments on Rayleigh-Benard convection, magnetoconvection and rotating magnetoconvection in liquid gallium, J. Fluid Mech., 430, 283-307, 2001.

Sumita, I. and P. Olson, Laboratory experiments on high Rayleigh number thermal convection in a rapidly rotating hemispherical shell, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 117, 153-170, 2000.

Aurnou, J. and P. Olson, Control of inner core rotation by electromagnetic, gravitational and mechanical torques, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 117, 111-121, 2000.

Sumita, I. and P. Olson, A laboratory model for the convection in the Earth’s core driven by a thermally heterogeneous mantle,  Science, 286, 1547-1549, 1999.

Olson, P. and J. Aurnou, A polar vortex in the Earth’s core, Nature, 402, 170- 173, 1999.

Christensen, U., P. Olson and G.A. Glatzmaier, Numerical modeling of the geodynamo: a systematic parameter study, Geophys. J. Int., 138, 393-409, 1999.

Olson, P., U. Christensen, and G.A. Glatzmaier, Numerical modeling of the geodynamo: Mechanisms of field generation and equilibration, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 10.383-10,404, 1999.

 

 

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