Researchers use centuries of data to map Earth's westward magnetic field drift
Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 08:30
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —A trio of researchers from France and Denmark has combined data obtained over the past several centuries to create a model depicting the westward drift of the Earth's magnetic field. In so doing as they explain in their paper published in the journal Nature, the team believes it might be possible to predict where the field will drift in the future.