An NCEI team, World Magnetic Model

Arnaud Chulliat and the rest of the geomagnetism team (Patrick Alken, Nir Boneh, Brian Meyer, Manoj Nair, Jesse Varner, and Adam Woods) provided exemplary service to an enormous community of users worldwide by updating the World Magnetic Model (WMM) in an unexpected, out-of-cycle release more than a year before the next scheduled update was planned. This was a critical update for many users including the U.S. military, NATO, commercial aviation, search and rescue professionals, and in other sectors that rely on precision navigation, especially in the far North.