“…Since they are intended to represent the palaeofield on a global scale, these models are usually too smooth to record rapid changes of the Earth's magnetic field (i.e., archaeomagnetic jerks, GALLET et al, 2005) which could be related to climatic changes. Recently the first directional regional model (SCHA.DI.00) to describe the palaeomagnetic field in Europe was proposed (PAVóN-CARRASCO et al, 2008), which seems to better reproduce the variability of the geomagnetic field over this region for the last 2000 years. The SCHA.DI.00 model was developed using the Spherical Cap Harmonic Analysis (SCHA) technique applied to five of the Bayesian European Palaeosecular Variation Curves (PSVC) (GALLET et al, 2002;SCHNEPP and LANOS, 2005;MARTON and FERENCZ, 2006;GÓ MEZ-PACCARD et al, 2006a andZANANIRI et al, 2007), that are based on archaeomagnetic data.…”