Smooth vector fields defined on a spherical domain are principal objects of study inmany branches of science. Many geophysical and environmental processes occur as vector
fields on a sphere, and usually have some important features, such as being tangential to
a sphere, or derived from the gradient of harmonic scalar potentials, while exhibit different
scale of variations and local features. Existing literature usually focuses on using large spatial
scale component basis functions (spherical harmonics), which is not suitable for capturing
local and non-Gaussian features. In this dissertation, we propose a new representation of
functions on a sphere, localized in both space and frequency domain, and a Bayesian
sparse regression framework for vector field mean estimation. The model is fitted efficiently
by a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) scheme employing Gibbs Sampling algorithm,
and provides uncertainty quantication of the fitted field as a by-product. The validity
of the framework and model fitting procedure are investigated by an extensive simulation
study. We demonstrate practical utility of our method through applications to synthetic data
generated from the known crustal field models (CHAOS-6) and satellite survey (CHAMP)
data to reconstruct lithospheric magnetic field.