EMAG2 Global Earth Magnetic Anomaly Model
The US National Environmental Information Center Office of Geomatics provide EMAG2, the Earth Magnetic Anomaly Model at 2 arc-minute resolution based on satellite, ship, and airborne magnetic measurements. The latest EMAG2 version 3 [Meyer et al., 2017] grid is now available for remote use in GMT.
Usage - Global Earth Magnetic Anomaly Model Grids
You access a global EMAG2 grid by specifying the special name
@earth_mag_[rru[_reg]]
This version is observed at sea level over oceanic regions and have no data over land. For a version where all observations are relative to an altitude of 4 km above the geoid and includes data over land, use instead
@earth_mag4km_[rru[_reg]]
The following codes for rru and the optional reg are supported (dimensions are listed
for pixel-registered grids; gridline-registered grids increment dimensions by one). The sizes
refers to the earth_mag4km version (the oceanic files are ~60% smaller):
Code |
Dimensions |
Reg |
Size |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
01d |
360 x 180 |
g,p |
94 KB |
1 arc degree global EMAG2 (2 min @ 111 km) |
30m |
720 x 360 |
g,p |
329 KB |
30 arc minute global EMAG2 (2 min @ 55 km) |
20m |
1080 x 540 |
g,p |
695 KB |
20 arc minute global EMAG2 (2 min @ 37 km) |
15m |
1440 x 720 |
g,p |
1.2 MB |
15 arc minute global EMAG2 (2 min @ 28 km) |
10m |
2160 x 1080 |
g,p |
2.5 MB |
10 arc minute global EMAG2 (2 min @ 18 km) |
06m |
3600 x 1800 |
g,p |
5.7 MB |
6 arc minute global EMAG2 (2 min @ 10 km) |
05m |
4320 x 2160 |
g,p |
9.3 MB |
5 arc minute global EMAG2 (2 min @ 9 km) |
04m |
5400 x 2700 |
g,p |
14 MB |
4 arc minute global EMAG2 (2 min @ 7.5 km) |
03m |
7200 x 3600 |
g,p |
24 MB |
3 arc minute global EMAG2 (2 min @ 5.6 km) |
02m |
10800 x 5400 |
p |
52 MB |
2 arc minute global EMAG2 (2 min original) |
See GMT remote dataset usage for when resolution codes are optional or required.
All of these data will, when downloaded, be placed in your ~/.gmt/server directory, with
the earth_mag files being placed in an earth/earth_mag sub-directory. If you do not
specify a CPT, the default CPT for this data set will be used (@earth_mag.cpt)
Technical Information - Global Earth Magnetic Anomaly Model Grids
We scale and reformat the original data to take up very little space so that downloads from the servers are as fast as possible. For the EMAG2 grid this means we chose 0.2 nTesla as the smallest data unit, which is well below the uncertainties in the model (0.4 nT for the 4 km altitude version). Data are scaled and shifted to fit in a short integer grid that is highly compressed by netCDF lossless compression and chunking. The data are reported in nT.
Data References - Global Earth Magnetic Anomaly Model Grids
Meyer, B., Saltus, R. and Chulliat, A., 2017: [https://doi.org/10.7289/V5H70CVX].