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EVALUATION OF THE CANDIDATE MAIN FIELD MODEL FOR IGRF 2000 DERIVED FROM PRELIMINARY ØRSTED DATA

 

Lowes, F.J. (1), T. Bondar (2), V.P. Golovkov (2), B. Langlais (3), S. Macmillan (4), and M. Mandea (3)

  1. Physics Department, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.

  2. IZMIRAN, 142092 Troitsk, Moscow region, Russia

  3. Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Laboratoire de Geomagnetisme, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252, Paris Cedex 05, France

Abstract. On this occasion the selection of the IGRF for 2000 was left to a small Task Force. Before it was accepted by the Task Force as IGRF 2000, the final candidate model (a truncated version of Ørsted) was compared with a comprehensive set of independent surface and satellite data. The method, data selection, and results of this comparison are described.