Context. Dynamo action in giant planets and rapidly rotating stars leads to a broad variety of magnetic field geometries including small-scale multipolar and large-scale dipole-dominated topologies. Previous dynamo models suggest that solutions become multipolar once inertia is influential. Being tailored for terrestrial planets, most of these models neglected the background density stratification.
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