George Edward Backus
Affiliations: | 1956 | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA |
Area:
relativity, core-mantle boundary phenomenon, core fluid mechanics, and inversion of geomagnetic data.Website:
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Parents
Sign in to add mentor| Subramanyan Chandrasekhar | grad student | 1956 | Chicago | |
| (The axisymmetric self-excited fluid dynamo.) | ||||
Children
Sign in to add trainee| John R. Booker | grad student | 1968 | UCSD |
| F. Anthony Dahlen | grad student | 1969 | UCSD |
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| Backus G, Rieutord M. (2017) Completeness of inertial modes of an incompressible inviscid fluid in a corotating ellipsoid. Physical Review. E. 95: 053116 |
| Backus G, Mouël JL. (1998) Le Mouel receives Fleming Medal Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 79: 32-32 |
| Walker AD, Backus GE. (1997) A six-parameter statistical model of the Earth's magnetic field Geophysical Journal International. 130: 693-700 |
| Walker AD, Backus GE. (1996) Is the non-dipole magnetic field random? Geophysical Journal International. 124: 315-319 |
| Walker AD, Backus GE. (1996) On the difference between the average values of Br² in the Atlantic and Pacific hemispheres Geophysical Research Letters. 23: 1965-1968 |
| Backus GE. (1996) Trimming and procrastination as inversion techniques Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors. 98: 101-142 |
| Backus GE. (1989) Confidence set inference with a prior quadratic bound Geophysical Journal. 97: 119-150 |
| Backus GE. (1988) The field lines of an axisymmetric magnetic field Geophysical Journal - Royal Astronomical Society. 93: 413-417 |
| Backus GE. (1988) Bayesian inference in geomagnetism Geophysical Journal. 92: 125-142 |
| Backus G. (1987) Isotropic probability measures in infinite-dimensional spaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 84: 8755-7 |