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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2012
1. During recent years increased attention has been paid to the question of measuring or estimating the extent or degree of disturbance in the earth's magnetic field. Two distinct purposes have been kept in view. The first and more general is to provide some measure of disturbance capable of use as a means of correlating terrestrial magnetic change with other geophysical or cosmical phenomena; in particular, solar phenomena. The second seeks to assign to each Greenwich day a numerical value for the degree of disturbance on that day, so that a selection may be made in each month of a certain number of days on which the terrestrial field has been least or most disturbed. The immediate object here is to secure comparability between results—particularly diurnal inequalities—obtained at different magnetic observatories.
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