Sentence examples for magnetic declination from inspiring English sources
noun
The angle between the magnetic meridian and geographic meridian at a given place; a measure of the deviation of magnetic north from true north, expressed in degrees east or west.
The angle between the compass needle and geographic north is called the magnetic declination (see Earth: The magnetic field of the Earth).
The zero magnetic declination is along the white line.
This wind effect varies significantly with longitude, due to the variation of magnetic declination and inclination.
Paleomagnetic data from the IWT showed high magnetic inclination and radially scattered magnetic declination (Table 2).
Green curved lines represent magnetic declination, while red curved lines represent magnetic inclination.
Fig. 1 Regions in the northern and southern hemisphere approximately centered at zero magnetic declination.
This is attributed to the different magnetic declination angles at the two sites.
The locations of the temperature maxima within the temperature crests shift from longitudes of positive magnetic declination to longitudes of negative magnetic declination during the June solstice and from longitudes of negative magnetic declination to longitudes of positive magnetic declination during the December solstice.
It is not recorded in Zhu Zaiyu's writings [33, 34] where he took the measurements of magnetic declination.
It is seen that the longitudinal variation of the density and temperature distribution depends on the magnetic declination angle.
Aceh is the port on the map to have a magnetic declination in the early seventeenth century closest to that indicated by the tilt of the compass rose.
