GRACE-FO 2 Data products of AOCS magnetometer

The data is provided in NASA CDF format (https://cdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/).

Data categories

RAW: Raw magnetic field data as provided by L1b
ACAL_CORR: Magnetic field data, aligned, calibrated and corrected
CHAOS7: CHAOS7 magnetic model predictions for core, crustal and large-scale magnetospheric field
APEX: Magnetic coordinates (Emmert et al, 2010)
FAC: Radial and field-aligned currents derived from magnetic data in ACAL_CORR

C. Stolle, I. Michaelis, C. Xiong, M. Rother, Th. Usbeck, Y. Yamazaki, J. Rauberg, K. Styp-Rekowski, Observing Earth’s magnetic environment with the GRACE-FO mission, Earth Planet Space, submitted.

Contacts: Claudia Stolle (cstolle@gfz-potsdam.de), Ingo Michaelis (ingo.michaelis@gfz-potsdam.de)

References:
Emmert, J.T., Richmond, A.D., & Drob, D.P. (2010). A computationally compact representation of Magnetic-Apex and Quasi-Dipole coordinates with smooth base vectors. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, A08322. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010JA015326