A generating process of geomagnetic drifting field

Abstract The geomagnetic field is comprised of drifting and standing fields. The drifting field has two remarkable features. One is predominance of sectorial harmonics when the field is expressed in a spherical harmonic series, and the other is uniform drift rate irrespective of harmonics. We consid...

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Main Authors: Takesi Yukutake, Hisayoshi Shimizu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-09-01
Series:Earth, Planets and Space
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40623-018-0908-3