Report on Activities and Plans of MagNetE - the Group for European Repeat Station Surveys

摘要

In February 2003, scientists from 20 European countries followed an invitation to join a novel initiative: the first workshop on European Geomagnetic Repeat Stations, to be held at the Adolf Schmidt-Observatory for Geomagnetism in Niemegk, Germany. The objective of this workshop was to coordinate the effort of more homogeneous surveys in Europe. So far, geomagnetic measurement campaigns in many countries were performed not as a concerted action but differed with respect to the survey time, the interval of repeat measurements, the station density and measurement techniques. In order to perform detailed studies on the European geomagnetic field and its variations and to compile geomagnetic maps on a wider scale, with high accuracy, it was required to homogenize the measurements.