{"id":73116,"date":"2021-05-28T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T10:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/?p=73116"},"modified":"2022-08-19T08:01:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T08:01:59","slug":"the-great-north-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/news\/the-great-north-run\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great North Run"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Did you know there are technically three kinds of north in use in Great Britain? We have ‘true north’, which is the direction to the geographic north pole; ‘grid north’, which is the direction northwards along grid lines of the map projection in use, namely the British National Grid, and finally, ‘magnetic north’, the direction that a compass needle points to as it aligns with the Earth’s magnetic field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between 2022 and 2026 it is predicted that, because of changes in the Earth\u2019s magnetic field, the directions of the three norths will coincide at various locations at different times, for the first time ever. The locations of coincidence will run northwards along the 2\u00b0W longitude meridian, where the fixed directions of true north and British National Grid north are already the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Earth’s magnetic field<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The magnetic field varies with location and changes with time. Its direction in the horizontal plane is an essential directional reference for compass users. The changes are due to the slow movement of molten material in the Earth\u2019s outer core region and these changes are also responsible for changes of the location of the magnetic north pole. Because the Earth\u2019s magnetic field is more complicated than dipolar (i.e. like that of a bar magnet, which you can see with iron filings on a piece of paper) magnetic compasses do NOT point directly to the magnetic north pole. Compass needles instead align themselves with the local magnetic field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The local magnetic field<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to provide up-to-date estimates of the local magnetic field, we make measurements of it at repeat stations and observatories. A repeat station is a place uncontaminated by human-made magnetic material, where the Earth\u2019s natural magnetic field is observed every few years in order to track its slow changes with time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are 41 repeat stations<\/a> spread throughout England, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man, each visited every four years, and three observatories<\/a>, which operate continuously. At each repeat station site, the direction to true north is established using a pair of accurate Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers. Readings are then taken over a few hours using a non-magnetic fluxgate theodolite to find the direction of the magnetic field. The strength of the magnetic field is also measured.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Engineer Tom Martyn using a non-magnetic fluxgate theodolite at Ashridge repeat station in Hertfordshire. BGS \u00a9 UKRI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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The data is reduced to quiet night-time levels using the continuous measurements from the observatories and then used to update a model of the UK magnetic field every year. This model provides the Ordnance Survey (OS) with north directions for their map products. In 2014, the OS had to design a new icon to represent the directions of the three norths because, for the first time ever, magnetic north became east of grid north<\/a> for some locations in Great Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The three norths. \u00a9 Ordnance Survey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

The movement of the three norths<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 revision of the model predicts that the direction of magnetic north will be the same as the direction of true north and grid north at the Isle of Purbeck\/Poole in Dorset in November\/December 2022. The point of coincidence of these three norths will then itself move northwards, passing Skipton in North Yorkshire in first half of 2024 and expected to reach Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire some time in 2026. These later predictions will need refining nearer the time to account for any sudden and poorly understood changes in the magnetic field known as jerks or impulses.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Locations where magnetic north, true north and grid north are in the same direction at the beginning of July for each given year. BGS \u00a9 UKRI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Finding grid magnetic angle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You can calculate grid magnetic angle (the angle between grid north and magnetic north) for the current year by going to the BGS Geomagnetism website and using the GMA calculator<\/a>. The calculator outputs a grid magnetic angle for any given location (entered as a British National Grid reference, latitude and longitude or postcode) from the current UK magnetic field model, which you can then use with a magnetic compass and map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the authors<\/h2>\n\n\n\t\t

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BGS Geomagnetism senior scientist<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Tom Martyn co-authored this article.<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t

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