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Building the second version of the World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map (WDMAM)

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The World Digital Anomaly Map (WDMAM) is a worldwide compilation of near-surface magnetic data. We present here a candidate for the second version of the WDMAM and its characteristics. This candidate has been evaluated by a group of independent reviewers and has been adopted as the official second version of the WDMAM during the 26th general assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geomagnetism (IUGG). The way this compilation has been built is described with some details. A global magnetic field model of the lithosphere contribution, parameterised by spherical harmonics, has been derived up to degree and order 800. The model information content has been evaluated by computing local spectra. Further, the compatibility of the anomaly field displayed by the WDMAM with a pure induced magnetisation is tested by comparison with the main field strength. These studies allowed an analysis of the compilation in terms of strength and wavelength content. They confirm the extremely smooth and weak contribution of the magnetic field generated in the lithosphere over Western Europe. This apparent weakness possibly extends to the Northern African continent. However, a global analysis remains difficult to achieve given the sparseness of good quality data over very large area of oceans and continents. The WDMAM and related information can be downloaded at http://www.wdmam.org/.
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insu-01353190 , version 1 (10-08-2016)

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Vincent Lesur, Mohamed Hamoudi, Yujin Choi, Jérôme Dyment, Erwan Thébault. Building the second version of the World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map (WDMAM). Earth Planets and Space, 2016, 68, pp.27. ⟨10.1186/s40623-016-0404-6⟩. ⟨insu-01353190⟩
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