Abstract
Continuous geomagnetic field models for the past 7 millennia: 2. CALS7K
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam, 14473 Germany
Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California, 92093-0225, USA
We present two continuous global geomagnetic field models for recent millennia: CALS3K.2, covering the past 3000 years, and
CALS7K.2, covering 7000 years from 5000 BC to 1950 AD. The models were determined by regularized least squares inversion of
archeomagnetic and paleomagnetic data using spherical harmonics in space and cubic B splines in time. They are derived from
a greatly increased number of paleomagnetic directional data, compared to previous efforts, and for the first time a significant
amount of archeointensity data is used in this kind of global model, allowing the determination of evolution of geomagnetic
dipole strength. While data accuracy and dating uncertainties remain a limitation, reliable low-resolution global models can
be obtained. The results agree well with previous results from virtual axial dipole moment (VADM) studies from archeomagnetic
intensity data apart from a systematic offset in strength. A comparison of model predictions with the previous 3000 year model,
CALS3K.1, gives general agreement but also some significant differences particularly for the early epochs. The new models
suggest that the prominent two northern hemisphere flux lobes are more stationary than CALS3K.1 implied, extending considerably
the time span of stationary flux lobes observed in historical models. Between 5000 BC and 2000 BC there are time intervals
of weak dipole moment where dipole power is exceeded by low-degree nondipole power at the core-mantle boundary. Model coefficients
and evaluation code can be obtained from the EarthRef Digital Archive (ERDA) together with animations and snapshots plots
for every 100 years at
Received 13 July 2004; accepted 29 November 2004; published 1 February 2005.
Citation: (2005), Continuous geomagnetic field models for the past 7 millennia: 2. CALS7K, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 6, Q02H16, doi:10.1029/2004GC000801.
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