Geomagnetic Observations and Models

✍ Scribed by Jean L. Rasson, Hiroaki Toh, Dongmei Yang (auth.), M. Mandea, Monika Korte (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 351
• Series: IAGA Special Sopron Book Series 5
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume provides comprehensive and authoritative coverage of all the main areas linked to geomagnetic field observation, from instrumentation to methodology, on ground or near-Earth. Efforts are also focused on a 21st century e-Science approach to open access to all geomagnetic data, but also to the data preservation, data discovery, data rescue, and capacity building. Finally, modeling magnetic fields with different internal origins, with their variation in space and time, is an attempt to draw together into one place the traditional work in producing models as IGRF or describing the magnetic anomalies.

Audience: This book will be of interest to researchers and scientists in geophysics and geomagnetism.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
The Global Geomagnetic Observatory Network....Pages 1-25
Magnetic Satellite Missions and Data....Pages 27-44
Repeat Station Activities....Pages 45-55
Aeromagnetic and Marine Measurements....Pages 57-103
Instruments and Methodologies for Measurement of the Earth’s Magnetic Field....Pages 105-126
Improvements in Geomagnetic Observatory Data Quality....Pages 127-148
Magnetic Observatory Data and Metadata: Types and Availability....Pages 149-181
Geomagnetic Indices....Pages 183-228
Modelling the Earth’s Magnetic Field from Global to Regional Scales....Pages 229-264
The International Geomagnetic Reference Field....Pages 265-276
Geomagnetic Core Field Models in the Satellite Era....Pages 277-294
Interpretation of Core Field Models....Pages 295-309
Mapping and Interpretation of the Lithospheric Magnetic Field....Pages 311-337
Back Matter....Pages 339-343

✦ Subjects

Geophysics/Geodesy; Mathematical Applications in Earth Sciences