spacepy.igrf.IGRF

class spacepy.igrf.IGRF

International Geomagnetic Reference Field model

Notes

New in version 0.3.0.

Methods

calcDipoleAxis()	Calculates dipole axis for initialized time.
initialize(time[, limits])	Initialize model state to a particular time.

Data

dipole	Characteristics of dipole (dict).
moment	Dipole moments (dict).

calcDipoleAxis()

Calculates dipole axis for initialized time.

Populates moment and dipole.

initialize(time, limits='warn')

Initialize model state to a particular time.

Parameters:

timedatetime

Time for which to initialize the model

Other Parameters:

limitsstr, optional

Set to warn to warn about out-of-range times (default); any other value to error.

dipole

Characteristics of dipole (dict).

moment

Dipole moments (dict).