Journal
EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE
Volume 67, Issue -, Pages 1-9Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1186/s40623-015-0215-1
Keywords
Geomagnetic field; Magnetic field modeling; IGRF; Swarm
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- CHAMP mission by the German Aerospace Center (DLR)
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- Danish Government
- NASA
- ESA
- CNES
- DARA
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The International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF) is a model of the geomagnetic main field and its secular variation, produced every 5 years from candidate models proposed by a number of international research institutions. For this 12th generation IGRF, three candidate models were solicited: a main field model for the 2010.0 epoch, a main field model for the 2015.0 epoch, and the predicted secular variation for the five-year period 2015 to 2020. The National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has produced three candidate models for consideration in IGRF-12. The 2010 main field candidate was produced from Challenging Minisatellite Payload (CHAMP) satellite data, while the 2015 main field and secular variation candidates were produced from Swarm and Orsted satellite data. Careful data selection was performed to minimize the influence of magnetospheric and ionospheric fields. The secular variation predictions of our parent models, from which the candidate models were derived, have been validated against independent ground observatory data.
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