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International Geomagnetic Reference Field - The Thirteenth Generation

Earth, Planets and Space welcomes submissions to the special issue on ''International Geomagnetic Reference Field - The Thirteenth Generation.

This special issue, titled “International Geomagnetic Reference Field - The Thirteenth Generation” solicits papers related to:

  1. Construction of candidate models for IGRF-13, including methodology, datasets, and error analysis used to build the candidates.
  2. Recent advances in geomagnetic core field modeling which are of interest to the IGRF community and/or could be beneficial to future internal field modeling efforts.

Submission Instructions

Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have carefully read the submission guidelines for Earth, Planets and Space. The complete manuscript should be submitted through the Earth, Planets and Space submission system. To ensure that you submit to the correct special issue please select the appropriate special issue in the drop-down menu upon submission. In addition, indicate within your cover letter that you wish your manuscript to be considered as part of the special issue on  International Geomagnetic Reference Field - The Thirteenth Generation. All submissions will undergo rigorous peer review and accepted articles will be published within the journal as a collection.


Lead Guest Editor

Patrick Alken, University of Colorado and NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), USA

Guest Editors

Erwan Thebault, LPG UMR-CNRS, France
Masahito Nose, Nagoya University, Japan
Ciaran D. Beggan, British Geological Survey, UK
 

Submissions will also benefit from the usual advantages of open access publication:

  • Rapid publication: Online submission, electronic peer review and production make the process of publishing your article simple and efficient
  • High visibility and international readership in your field: Open access publication ensures high visibility and maximum exposure for your work - anyone with online access can read your article
  • No space constraints: Publishing online means unlimited space for figures, extensive data and video footage
  • Authors retain copyright, licensing the article under a Creative Commons license: articles can be freely redistributed and reused as long as the article is correctly attributed.

  2. We describe the way a global model of the geomagnetic field has been built using vector field data acquired by the absolute scalar magnetometers (ASM) running in vector mode on board the Alpha and Bravo satell...

    Authors: Pierre Vigneron, Gauthier Hulot, Jean-Michel Léger and Thomas Jager
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:197
    Content type: Express Letter Published on:

  3. Each International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF) model released under the auspices of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy comprises a secular variation component that describes the ...

    Authors: Alexandre Fournier, Julien Aubert, Vincent Lesur and Erwan Thébault
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:190
    Content type: Frontier Letter Published on:

  5. In December 2019, the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) Division V Working Group (V-MOD) adopted the thirteenth generation of the International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF). T...

    Authors: P. Alken, E. Thébault, C. D. Beggan, H. Amit, J. Aubert, J. Baerenzung, T. N. Bondar, W. J. Brown, S. Califf, A. Chambodut, A. Chulliat, G. A. Cox, C. C. Finlay, A. Fournier, N. Gillet, A. Grayver…
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:49
    Content type: Full paper Published on:

  6. In December 2019, the 13th revision of the International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF) was released by the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) Division V Working Group V-MOD. Thi...

    Authors: P. Alken, E. Thébault, C. D. Beggan, J. Aubert, J. Baerenzung, W. J. Brown, S. Califf, A. Chulliat, G. A. Cox, C. C. Finlay, A. Fournier, N. Gillet, M. D. Hammer, M. Holschneider, G. Hulot, M. Korte…
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:48
    Content type: Technical report Published on:

  7. We have produced a 5-year mean secular variation (SV) of the geomagnetic field for the period 2020–2025. We use the NASA Geomagnetic Ensemble Modeling System (GEMS), which consists of the NASA Goddard geodynam...

    Authors: Andrew Tangborn, Weijia Kuang, Terence J. Sabaka and Ce Yi
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:47
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  8. The International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF) model is a combination of the several models developed by independent groups of scientists using different approaches for the selection of input data and me...

    Authors: Valeriy G. Petrov and Tatyana N. Bondar
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:46
    Content type: Express Letter Published on:

  9. Using magnetic field data from the China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES) mission, we derive a global geomagnetic field model, which we call the CSES Global Geomagnetic Field Model (CGGM). This model de...

    Authors: Yanyan Yang, Gauthier Hulot, Pierre Vigneron, Xuhui Shen, Zeren Zhima, Bin Zhou, Werner Magnes, Nils Olsen, Lars Tøffner-Clausen, Jianpin Huang, Xuemin Zhang, Shigeng Yuan, Lanwei Wang, Bingjun Cheng, Andreas Pollinger, Roland Lammegger…
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:45
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  11. This paper describes the design of a candidate secular variation model for the 13th generation of the International Geomagnetic Reference Field. This candidate is based upon the integration of an ensemble of 1...

    Authors: Alexandre Fournier, Julien Aubert, Vincent Lesur and Guillaume Ropp
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:43
    Content type: Full paper Published on:

  12. The three candidate models submitted by the British Geological Survey for the 13th generation International Geomagnetic Reference Field are described. These DGRF and IGRF models are derived from vector and sca...

    Authors: William J. Brown, Ciarán D. Beggan, Grace A. Cox and Susan Macmillan
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:42
    Content type: Full paper Published on:

  13. We present a new model of the geomagnetic field spanning the last 20 years and called Kalmag. Deriving from the assimilation of CHAMP and Swarm vector field measurements, it separates the different contributio...

    Authors: Julien Baerenzung, Matthias Holschneider, Johannes Wicht, Vincent Lesur and Sabrina Sanchez
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2020 72:163
    Content type: Full paper Published on:

  14. We present the geomagnetic field model COV-OBS.x2 that covers the period 1840–2020. It is primarily constrained by observatory series, satellite data, plus older surveys. Over the past two decades, we consider...

    Authors: Loïc Huder, Nicolas Gillet, Christopher C. Finlay, Magnus D. Hammer and Hervé Tchoungui
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2020 72:160
    Content type: Full paper Published on:

  15. The IGRF offers an important incentive for testing algorithms predicting the Earth’s magnetic field changes, known as secular variation (SV), in a 5-year range. Here, we present a SV candidate model for the 13...

    Authors: Sabrina Sanchez, Johannes Wicht and Julien Bärenzung
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2020 72:157
    Content type: Full paper Published on:

  16. Observations of the geomagnetic field taken at Earth’s surface and at satellite altitude are combined to construct continuous models of the geomagnetic field and its secular variation from 1957 to 2020. From t...

    Authors: I. Wardinski, D. Saturnino, H. Amit, A. Chambodut, B. Langlais, M. Mandea and E. Thébault
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2020 72:155
    Content type: Full paper Published on:

  17. We describe a new, original approach to the modelling of the Earth’s magnetic field. The overall objective of this study is to reliably render fast variations of the core field and its secular variation. This ...

    Authors: Guillaume Ropp, Vincent Lesur, Julien Baerenzung and Matthias Holschneider
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2020 72:153
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  18. As posted by the Working Group V of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA), the 13th generation of the International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF) has been released at the end o...

    Authors: F. Javier Pavón-Carrasco, Santiago Marsal, J. Miquel Torta, Manuel Catalán, Fátima Martín-Hernández and J. Manuel Tordesillas
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2020 72:152
    Content type: Full paper Published on:

  19. We present the CHAOS-7 model of the time-dependent near-Earth geomagnetic field between 1999 and 2020 based on magnetic field observations collected by the low-Earth orbit satellites Swarm, CryoSat-2, CHAMP, SAC-...

    Authors: Christopher C. Finlay, Clemens Kloss, Nils Olsen, Magnus D. Hammer, Lars Tøffner-Clausen, Alexander Grayver and Alexey Kuvshinov
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2020 72:156
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  20. Earth’s internal magnetic field is generated through motion of the electrically conductive iron-alloy fluid comprising its outer core. Temporal variability of this magnetic field, termed secular variation (SV)...

    Authors: Maurits C. Metman, Ciarán D. Beggan, Philip W. Livermore and Jonathan E. Mound
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2020 72:149
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  21. We have submitted a secular variation (SV) candidate model for the thirteenth generation of International Geomagnetic Reference Field model (IGRF-13) using a data assimilation scheme and a magnetohydrodynamic ...

    Authors: Takuto Minami, Shin’ya Nakano, Vincent Lesur, Futoshi Takahashi, Masaki Matsushima, Hisayoshi Shimizu, Ryosuke Nakashima, Hinami Taniguchi and Hiroaki Toh
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2020 72:136
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  22. From the launch of the Ørsted satellite in 1999, through the CHAMP mission from 2000 to 2010, and now with the Swarm constellation mission starting in 2013, satellite magnetometry has provided excellent monito...

    Authors: Terence J. Sabaka, Lars Tøffner-Clausen, Nils Olsen and Christopher C. Finlay
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2020 72:80
    Content type: Full paper Published on: