EGU21-7173, updated on 12 Jan 2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7173
EGU General Assembly 2021
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Kalmag: a high spatio temporal model of the Geomagnetic field

Julien Baerenzung and Matthias Holschneider
Julien Baerenzung and Matthias Holschneider
  • University of Potsdam, Institute for mathematics, Potsam, Germany (baerenzung@gmx.de)

We present a new high resolution model of the Geomagnetic field spanning the last 121 years. The model derives from a large set of data taken by low orbiting satellites, ground based observatories, marine vessels, airplane and during land surveys. It is obtained by combining a Kalman filter to a smoothing algorithm. Seven different magnetic sources are taken into account. Three of them are of internal origin. These are the core, the lithospheric  and the induced / residual ionospheric fields. The other four sources are of external origin. They are composed by a close, a remote and a fluctuating magnetospheric fields as well as a source associated with field aligned currents. The dynamical evolution of each source is prescribed by an auto regressive process of either first or second order, except for the lithospheric field which is assumed to be static. The parameters of the processes were estimated through a machine learning algorithm with a sample of data taken by the low orbiting satellites of the CHAMP and Swarm missions. In this presentation we will mostly focus on the rapid variations of the core field, and the small scale lithospheric field.  We will also discuss the nature of model uncertainties and the limitiations they imply.

How to cite: Baerenzung, J. and Holschneider, M.: Kalmag: a high spatio temporal model of the Geomagnetic field, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-7173, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7173, 2021.