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Table 1 Table listing the number of spatial modes needed for each period to surpass either 95 or 99% variance (\(\kappa\)) threshold. The list includes PCA results using the full data set and restricting the data to March–April

From: Towards probing Earth’s upper mantle with daily magnetic field variations: exploring a physics-based parametrization of the source

Time Series

\(\kappa\) [%]

Period [h]

24

12

8

6

4.8

4

Full year

95

3

6

9

12

12

11

99

7

12

18

25

26

25

March–April

95

2

3

5

6

7

7

99

4

6

8

12

13

13