Overview

ChaosMagPy is a simple Python package for evaluating the CHAOS geomagnetic field model and other models of Earth’s magnetic field. The latest CHAOS model is available at http://www.spacecenter.dk/files/magnetic-models/CHAOS-8/.

Documentation

The documentation of the current release is available on Read the Docs (https://chaosmagpy.readthedocs.io/en/)

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Citation

To reference ChaosMagPy in publications, please cite the package itself

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3352398

and, for CHAOS-7, the relevant journal publication:

Finlay, C.C., Kloss, C., Olsen, N., Hammer, M. Toeffner-Clausen, L., Grayver, A and Kuvshinov, A. (2020), The CHAOS-7 geomagnetic field model and observed changes in the South Atlantic Anomaly, Earth Planets and Space 72, doi:10.1186/s40623-020-01252-9

or, for the earlier CHAOS models, some of the following:

Finlay, C.C., Olsen, N., Kotsiaros, S., Gillet, N. and Toeffner-Clausen, L. (2016), Recent geomagnetic secular variation from Swarm and ground observatories as estimated in the CHAOS-6 geomagnetic field model Earth Planets Space, Vol 68, 112. doi: 10.1186/s40623-016-0486-1

Olsen, N., Luehr, H., Finlay, C.C., Sabaka, T. J., Michaelis, I., Rauberg, J. and Toeffner-Clausen, L. (2014), The CHAOS-4 geomagnetic field model, Geophys. J. Int., Vol 197, 815-827, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggu033.

Olsen, N., Luehr, H., Sabaka, T.J., Mandea, M. ,Rother, M., Toeffner-Clausen, L. and Choi, S. (2006), CHAOS — a model of Earth’s magnetic field derived from CHAMP, Ørsted, and SAC-C magnetic satellite data, Geophys. J. Int., vol. 166 67-75