The area of the Ionian sea, between Albania and the Southern Italian Penins
ula, has been taken into account for the production of geomagnetic componen
t maps. Data from the national Albanian and Italian magnetic repeat station
networks have been merged, and normal reference fields in latitude and lon
gitude, have been computed. Data processing, reduction procedures and compa
risons with IGRF are presented. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights r
eserved.