Articles | Volume 9, issue 3/4
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-9-373-2002
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31 Aug 2002
31 Aug 2002
Calculation of the parameter "deflection" in a new theory of the Earth’s magnetic field
Abstract. In a recent paper on the theory of the Earth's magnetic field and key features of Sunspot activity (de Paor, 2001), a central role in the calculation of secular variations of the geomagnetic field was played by a newly-introduced parameter called the deflection (abbreviated def ). In this note, the significance of def is elucidated and the method used to calculate it is explained.
