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English: This is a world map of magnetic declination created by the National Geophysical Data Center at NOAA. Français : Carte mondiale de la déclinaison magnétique terrestre créé par le centre national des donnée géophysiques ( NGDC ) de l'agence américaine responsable de l'étude de l'océan et de l'atmosphère ( NOAA ).
Instead individual printed elements on the chart (such as VOR compass roses) are updated with each revision of the chart to reflect changes in magnetic declination. For an example refer to the sectional chart slightly west of Winston-Salem, North Carolina in March 2021, magnetic north is 8 degrees west of true north ( Note the dashed line ...
A novel approach, apparently originating with the Jesuit missionary Christoforo Borri, was to create charts that mapped points of equal magnetic declination. [c] With an accurate reading of the latitude and the magnetic declination the navigator could determine their longitude using the chart. [11]
Magnetic declination map at sea-level for the year 2010 derived from WMM2010. The World Magnetic Model ( WMM ) is a large spatial-scale representation of the Earth's magnetic field. It was developed jointly by the US National Geophysical Data Center and the British Geological Survey .
Magnetic declination. A compass needle does not in general point true north. The variation from true north varies with location, and it was suggested that this could provide a basis for determination of longitude. With the exception of magnetic declination, all proved practicable methods. Developments on land and sea, however, were very different.