The global geomagnetic field over the historical era: what can we learn from ship-log declinations?
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Published:2023-06-14
Issue:1
Volume:75
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ISSN:1880-5981
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Container-title:Earth, Planets and Space
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Earth Planets Space
Author:
Schanner MaximilianORCID, Bohsung Lukas, Fischer Clara, Korte Monika, Holschneider Matthias
Abstract
AbstractModern geomagnetic field models are constructed from satellite and observatory data, while models on the millennial timescale are constructed from indirect records of thermoremanent and sedimentary origin. An intermediate period, spanning the last four centuries, is covered by historical survey data and ship-logs, which is strongly dominated by geomagnetic declination information. We apply a sequentialized, Gaussian process-based modeling technique to this dataset and propose a new field model for this era. In order to investigate the information gained from declination records from ship-logs, we separate the dataset and construct a second model, where unpaired declination records (i.e., measurements where only declinations are reported and the rest of the field vector is missing) are removed. The availability of more records helps notably to constrain global field properties like the dipole moment. It also allows to resolve some detailed field structures more accurately. Based on the model constructed from the full dataset, we perform an analysis of the South Atlantic Anomaly and regions of low field intensity in general. We extend a recent analysis of center of mass movement and area evolution of the South Atlantic Anomaly further back in time and confirm the findings of its non-monotonous growth.
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Funder
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Universität Potsdam
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Space and Planetary Science,Geology
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