The Swarm Satellite Constellation Application and Research Facility (SCARF) and Swarm data products

Nils N Olsen (1) , Eigil D Friis-Christensen (1) , Rune N Floberghagen (2) , Patrick N Alken (3, 4) , H D Beggan (5) , Arnaud Chulliat (4) , Eelco N Doornbos (6) , João Teixeira da Encarnação (6) , H Hamilton (6) , G. Hulot (4) , Jose N van den Ijssel (6) , H Kuvshinov (7) , Vincent Lesur (8) , H D Lühr (8) , S. Macmillan (9) , Stefan N Maus (3) , H N Noja (8) , Poul Erik Olsen (10) , Jaeheung J Park (11) , Gernot N Plank (12) , Christoph Püthe (7) , Jan J Rauberg (8) , Patricia D Ritter (8) , Martin D Rother (8) , Terence N Sabaka (13) , Reyko D Schachtschneider (8) , Olivier Sirol (4) , Claudia D Stolle (1, 8) , Erwan Thébault (4) , Alan W P Thomson (9) , Lars D Tøffner-Clausen (1) , Jakub Velímský (14) , Pierre Vigneron (4) , Pieter N Visser (6)

1 DTU Space - National Space Institute [Lyngby]
2 ESRIN - ESA Centre for Earth Observation
3 NGDC - NOAA National Geophysical Data Center
4 IPG Paris - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
5 British Geological Survey, Murchison House
6 TU Delft - Delft University of Technology
7 ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich]
8 GFZ - German Research Centre for Geosciences - Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam
9 British Geological Survey [Edinburgh]
10 iCourt - Centre of Excellence for International Courts
11 GFZ - GeoForschungsZentrum - Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam
12 ESTEC - European Space Research and Technology Centre
13 Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory [Greenbelt]
14 Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague

with the Earth system, is expected to be launched in late 2013. The objective of the Swarm mission is to provide the best ever survey of the geomagnetic field and its temporal evolution, in order to gain new insights into the Earth system by improving our understanding of the Earth’s interior and environment. In order to derive advanced models of the geomagnetic field (and other higher-level data products) it is necessary to take explicit advantage of the constellation aspect of Swarm. The Swarm SCARF (Satellite Constellation Application and Research Facility) has been established with the goal of deriving Level-2 products by combination of data from the three satellites, and of the various instruments. The present paper describes the Swarm input data products (Level-1b and auxiliary data) used by SCARF, the various processing chains of SCARF, and the Level-2 output data products determined by SCARF.

Keywords: Earth’s magnetic field; core field; lithosphere; ionosphere; comprehensive inversion; electromagnetic induction; Swarm satellites.; magnetosphere

Domains: Geophysics [physics.geo-ph]

Nils N Olsen, Eigil D Friis-Christensen, Rune N Floberghagen, Patrick N Alken, H D Beggan, et al.. The Swarm Satellite Constellation Application and Research Facility (SCARF) and Swarm data products. Earth Planets and Space, 2013, 65 (1), pp.1319-1200. ⟨10.5047/eps.2013.07.001⟩. ⟨insu-01404764⟩