Exploration and
Environmental Geophysics - Fall 2009
Interesting (sort of) Information
Location of Earth and Planetary Sciences
building:
lat: N
38°:38':56.6" lon: W 090°:18':13.7"
elev: 164 m
This is a GPS location and elevation given in degrees:minutes:seconds
Magnetic Declination for St. Louis as of Aug 25 2009:
0°:46'
west, changing by 0°:6' west per year
from: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomagmodels/Declination.jsp
Other Magnetic Field Information for this area:
Results for date: 25.Aug.2009
Declination
= - 46'
changing by: - 6' /year
Inclination
=
67° 11' changing by: - 4' /year
N
component
= 20,613.6 nT changing by:
8.2 nT /year
E
component
= - 281.0 nT changing by: -38.6
nT/year
Z
component
= 48,988.5 nT changing by:
-138.1 nT/year
Horizontal Intensity =
20,615.5 nT changing by:
8.8 nT/year
Total
Intensity =
53,149.6 nT changing by: -123.8
nT/year