Maximum entropy regularization of time-dependent geomagnetic field models

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1005-1016

  Gillet, Nicolas ^a   Jackson, Andrew ^b   Finlay, Christopher C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Historical geomagnetic field modelling; Inverse problem; Maximum entropy method; Regularization; Secular variation

Indexed keywords

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; IMAGE PROCESSING; INVERSE PROBLEM; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SECULAR VARIATION;

EID: 36348986157     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03521.x     Document Type: Article

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