Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Geomagnetic_Reference_Field
The term usually present in the associated Legendre functions is omitted in this formulation and is instead accounted for in the Gauss coefficients.
The Gauss coefficients are modelled as a piecewise-linear function of time with a 5-year step size.[2]
Geomagnetic latitude
Magsat
Ørsted (satellite)
CHAMP (satellite)
Swarm (satellites)
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