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- Third Party Resource Title: Visualizing the Time-Dependence of the Earth's Magnetic Field
- Third Party Resource Link: https://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/data_models/matlab15/activities/115109.html
- Description: This activity falls under "visualization" of a geophysical field as expressed in spherical harmonics, which has been appreciated by college Freshmen, but also under "programming", targeted to and tried by college Seniors (Geosciences and Physics), since the "product" is both a series of maps that can be viewed and discussed as a movie highlighting the main time-variable features of the Earth's geomagnetic main field, and a MATLAB suite of programs that ingests input files with spherical harmonic coefficients and produces the visualizations, and which can be changed by the students (e.g. to look at different reference fields, or to plot different properties than the surface geomagnetic potential.)
- Publish Year: 2015
- Institution: Princeton University
