File:SAA area.svg
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English: Area of the South Atlantic Anomaly (area on Earth's surface where the intensity of the magnetic field is lower than 32 μT). |
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| Author | Cavit |
More information
The graph shows the area on the surface where the intensity of the magnetic field is lower than 32 μT, taken from the following models:
- gufm1: http://jupiter.ethz.ch/~cfinlay/gufm1.html archive copy at the Wayback Machine
A. Jackson, A. R. T. Jonkers, and M. R. Walker (2000). "Four centuries of geomagnetic secular variation from historical records". Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 358: 957-990. DOI:10.1098/rsta.2000.0569.
- IGRF-12: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/IAGA/vmod/igrf.html
E. Thébault et al. (2015). "International Geomagnetic Reference Field: the 12th generation". Earth, Planets and Space 67: 79. DOI:10.1186/s40623-015-0228-9.
See also F. Javier Pavón-Carrasco and Angelo De Santis (2016). "The South Atlantic Anomaly: The Key for a Possible Geomagnetic Reversal". Frontiers in Earth Science 4: 40. DOI:10.3389/feart.2016.00040. The 32 μT threshold is defined here.
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