International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy - Division V-MOD Geomagnetic Field Modeling



IUGG > IAGA > Division V > Working Group V-MOD

At the 2003 General Assembly in Sapporo, IAGA Division V reorganized. What was formerly Working Group V-8 is now V-MOD: Geomagnetic Field Modeling. The aim of Working Group V-MOD of Division V is to promote and coordinate international efforts to model and analyze the internal geomagnetic field and its secular variation on both global and regional scales. The Working Group holds business meetings and arranges symposiums at IAGA Scientific Assemblies and IUGG General Assemblies. You can read a brief history of WG V-MOD.

The latest International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF-12) is released! Download the model file here. The file format remains the same as the previous IGRF coefficient file.

Business Meetings Minutes

IAGA Resolutions

IGRF-12

Repeat Stations

Home page of WDMAM

Previous Meeting: Cape Town

13^th Generation IGRF - To Be Released December, 2019

The call for candidate models for IGRF-13 is now live. Please consider contributing one or more candidate models.

Deadlines:

August 1, 2019: brief notice of intent to task force chair (Patrick Alken)
October 1, 2019: deadline for submission of candidate models

12^th Generation IGRF - Released December, 2014
The International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) released the 12 ^th Generation International Geomagnetic Reference Field – the latest version of a standard mathematical description of the Earth's main magnetic field and used widely in studies of the Earth's deep interior, its crust and its ionosphere and magnetosphere. The coefficients for this degree and order 13 main field model were finalized by a task force of IAGA in December 2014. The IGRF is the product of a collaborative effort between magnetic field modellers and the institutes involved in collecting and disseminating magnetic field data from satellites and from observatories and surveys around the world. Before using the IGRF please look at the "Health Warning".

IGRF-12 is also available to download.

Online access to IGRF-12 is also available from the IGRF-12 calculator operated by BGS.

Task Group for the World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map Project

Chair: Erwan Thébault

Chargé de Recherche
Laboratoire de Planétologie de Géodynamique de Nantes
LPG UMR-CNRS 6112
2, rue de al Houssiniere BP 92208- 44322 Nantes cedex 3 - France
Tel: +33 2 51 12 54 70

Co-Chair: Patrick Alken

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Centers for Environmental Information
325 Broadway, E/GC3
Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Tel: +1 303 497 5480


For page content questions please contact: Erwan Thébault Webpage Maintained by: Geomag.Models@noaa.gov Hosted by: World Data Center	URL: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/IAGA/vmod/ Revised: 6 July 2015
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