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QD-coords still calculated by the updated apex cooeficients. #34

Open pacesm opened 4 years ago

pacesm commented 4 years ago

Apparently the calculation of the QD coordinates is still using the old, now outdated, apex coefficients

https://github.com/ESA-VirES/MagneticModel/blob/3264b9a192922086be6b02b9cbbc6bf504f35a57/eoxmagmod/eoxmagmod/data/__init__.py#L54-L56

https://github.com/ESA-VirES/MagneticModel/blob/3264b9a192922086be6b02b9cbbc6bf504f35a57/eoxmagmod/eoxmagmod/quasi_dipole_coordinates.py#L31-L34

The deviation is not very large (angular distance < 1°) though.

QDdelta_1980-2025_vs_extrapolated_1980-2020_coeff_T2020 5_H450km_

pacesm commented 4 years ago

Fixed in https://github.com/ESA-VirES/MagneticModel/commit/4111fc6f446132615e6cd99513f5f04229dc9a8f

https://github.com/ESA-VirES/MagneticModel/blob/9eee7382a9f896a42f5032fdb38e650eba9861fa/eoxmagmod/eoxmagmod/data/__init__.py#L56-L57