Special issue “International Geomagnetic Reference Field: the thirteenth generation”

Special Issue for 13th International Industrial Engineering Conference (IIEC 2017)

     This special issue is a collection of refereed articles selected from the 13th International Industrial Engineering Conference (IIEC 2017). The initial selection was made by Dr. Hamed Fazlollahtabar who also wrote the following description. The accepted articles were reviewed going through the usual reviewing process of IJOR. Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri Editor-in-Chief &nbs...

NOAA/NGDC candidate models for the 11th generation International Geomagnetic Reference Field and the concurrent release of the 6th generation Pomme magnetic model

The International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF) is updated every five years based on candidate model submissions by research institutions worldwide. In the call for the 11th generation of IGRF, candidates were requested for the definitive main field in 2005, the predicted main field in 2010, and the predicted secular variation from 2010 to 2015. The NOAA/NGDC candidate models for IGRF-11 w...

eJIFCC Special Issue on Laboratory Reference Intervals

Recent decades have witnessed a tremendous increase in the number of new diagnostic methods and the introduction of many emerging new biomarkers in clinical diagnostic laboratories. The utility of biomarkers as screening and diagnostic tools is limited by many factors, such as sensitivity, specificity and predictive values. Another critical factor, not always carefully considered, is the availa...

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Advances in Modeling the Generation of the Geomagnetic Field

DYNAMO is the first simulation code to dynamically and self-consistently model the evolution of the geomagnetic field. In this paper, we present the results of recent efforts to parallelize and optimize this pseuodospectral code for massively parallel architectures. On the Cray T3E, these modifications have resulted in a sustained performance of well-over 100 Gflops, representing more than a 10...