Earth's lithospheric magnetic field determined to spherical harmonic degree 90 from CHAMP satellite measurements

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 319-330

  Maus, Stefan ^a,c,d   Rother, M ^a   Hemant, K ^a   Stolle, C ^a   Luhr H ^a   Kuvshinov, A ^b   Olsen, N ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Crustal field; Crustal magnetization; Field modelling; Geomagnetic field; Lithospheric field

Indexed keywords

CRUST; EARTH; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; LITHOSPHERE; TIDAL CONSTITUENT;

EID: 33646002638     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02833.x     Document Type: Article

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