Clarification of the Hall effect as an energy transfer mechanism in a theory of the Earth's magnetic field and sunspots

A. de Paor (1)

1 Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Clarification is offered of the energy transfer role played by the Hall effect in a recent paper: de Paor, A., A theory of the Earth's magnetic field and of sunspots, based on a self-excited dynamo incorporating the Hall effect, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 8, 265-279, 2001.

Domaines: Cosmologie et astrophysique extra-galactique [astro-ph.CO]; Astrophysique [astro-ph]; Sciences de la Terre

A. de Paor. Clarification of the Hall effect as an energy transfer mechanism in a theory of the Earth's magnetic field and sunspots. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 2003, 10 (4/5), pp.435-436. ⟨hal-00302237⟩