Regional modelling of the Southern African geomagnetic field using harmonic splines

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1329-1342

  Geese, A ^a,b   Mandea, M ^a   Lesur, V ^a   Hayn, M ^c  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Africa; Rapid time variations

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC SURVEY; MODELING; TIME SERIES;

SOUTHERN AFRICA;

EID: 77954067479     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04575.x     Document Type: Article

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