The cause and treatment of anisotropic errors in near-Earth geomagnetic data

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 103, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 375-388

  Holme, Richard ^a   Jackson, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cartesian component vector data; Crustal magnetisation; Earth's surface; High quality field models; Ocean bottom magnetic observatories

Indexed keywords

CARTESIAN COMPONENT VECTOR; CRUSTAL MAGNETIZATION; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; OCEAN BOTTOM MAGNETIC OBSERVATORY;

EID: 0031419943     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(97)00066-6     Document Type: Article

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