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Main field model development, accuracy and limitations

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Main field, model development, accuracy and test values

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Web-calulators for main field

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Browse imagery and contour maps for main field and secular change

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Common applications of WMM

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Third Party Software

WMM program ports to other languages

Several users have ported the WMM C or Fortran programs to other languages and have kindly offered to share these programs. Neither the authors nor NGDC can provide any warranty or technical support for these programs. Only non-commercial "free-ware" will be linked to from this site. Linking to third party software does not imply an endorsement or review of any kind from the Federal Government. Users are encouraged to verify results based on the WMM test values. NOAA Disclaimer for external links.

Language ~ Size Date Author Description
Java 19 KB Revised June 20th 2005 John St. Ledger Java implementation.
Visual Studio C++ 467 KB Revised January 2010 Garry Petrie GeoMag 3.0, the Geographic Magnetic Calculator, is a tool to determine UTM Coordinates and the Magnetic Declination that correspond to a longitude/latitude location.
C++ 2 MBRevised January 10th 2012 Charles Karney GeographicLib is a C++ library of geographic routines. The MagneticModel class reports the magnetic field for a given time and a position. The class currently supports WMM2010, EMM2010 and IGRF11. Provided by Charles Karney.
Visual Basic 190 KBRevised November 15th 2011 Fred Neudecker Visual Basic class version of GeoMag 7.0 (IGRF) for desktop applications. This class was written in Visual Studio 5.0.
Python 197 KBRevised January 14th 2010 Christopher Weiss A python version of the WMM algorithm
Java Script Revised April 6th 2012 Christopher Weiss The WMM algorithm in Javascript.
Java Revised May 15th 2012 Orekit Orekit is a free low-level space dynamics library. The GeoMagneticField class calculates the magnetic field for a given time and position. The class currently supports WMM and IGRF.
Objective C Revised Jan 10th 2013 Stephen Trainor A simple Objective-C wrapper for the WMM. Allow the model to be easily used in iOS.

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