Space Weather Resources

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Contents:

• Real-Time Space Weather Data Sources
• Space Weather Forecasts
• What is Space Weather? (Educational Links)
• Coordinated Data Analysis
• Space Physics Models
• Space Physics Observatories
  • Radars
  • Lidars
  • Ionosondes
  • Magnetometers
  • Cosmic Ray & Neutron Monitors
  • Solar Observatories
  • Optical Instruments
  • Sounding Rocket Facilities
  • Satellites
  • Computerized Ionospheric Tomography
• Space Physics Research Centers
  • Non-Academic Centers
  • Academic Centers
• Technical Literature Indices
• Space Physics Professional Organizations & Programs
• Relevant Amateur Organizations
• Other Lists of Space Weather & Space Physics Links

Real-Time Space Weather Data Sources

• ACE Real Time Solar Wind
• Today's Space Weather (NOAA)
• Current Solar Forecast (NOAA)
• Big Bear Solar Activity Reports(BBSO)
• Real-Time Magnetopause and Bow Shock Model
• Real-Time UAF Eulerian Polar Ionosphere Model
• Current Auroral Oval Position
• Current Auroral Oval inferred from CANOPUS array(U. Alberta)
• SuperDARN/ISR Global Real-Time Ionospheric Convection
• Estimated Auroral Activity from NOAA/TIROS
• IZMEM Space Weather Forecast
• Real-Time Auroral Monitors (multiple sources)
• Most Recent POLAR Auroral Image (Visible Light)
• POLAR UltraViolet Imager Current Image
• POLAR Ionospheric X-ray Imaging Experiment (PIXIE) Image of the Day
• Alaska Auroral Prediction Service
• Alaska Geospace Environment Data Display System (GEDDS)
• Prediction Services (Australian gov't)
• Latest Solar Wind Observations (Rice, dials of solar wind conditions and the current magnetic field and convection maps estimated from the ACE data)
• Real Time Dst Estimate (UCLA, ACE-based)
• SOHO CELIAS MTOF Latest 48 Hours of Solar Wind Data
• The UNH Space Weather Forecast Page(include the last week of Yohkoh images and the corresponding images from the previous solar rotation)
• Real-Time Data from WIND spacecraft (NOAA)
• LANL Geosynchronous Energetic Particle Data
• North American Ionospheric Total Electron Content Maps
• NASA EnviroNet: Space Environment Information
• Hiraiso Solar Terrestrial Research Center (Japan)
• Current Australian-Region Ionospheric Conditions
• Pentiction 10cm Solar Radio Flux
• Current Solar Images (from Solar Data Analysis Center)
• Current Solar Images (from NOAA Space Environment Laboratory)
• Current Solar Images: Mt. Wilson Solar Tower
• YOHKOH SXT Coronal Hole Analysis: Universidad de Sonara
• Current Solar Images: Universidad de Sonora
• Millstone Hill Digisonde (Latest Ionogram [GIF])
• Alaska VHF Auroral Radar Real-Time Plots
• Ionospheric Scintillation Predictions
• GPS-based Ionospheric TEC Measurements
• UNAVCO TEC (and PWV) from GPS(Southwestern USA)
• Geological Survey of Canada: Geomagnetic Forecasts
• CANOPUS Magnetometer Array Real TIme Data (Canada)
• Kiruna Magnetometer (Sweden)
• Norwegian Magnetometers
• Sodankyla Magnetometer (Finland)
• INTERMAGNET Kyoto GIN Quicklook Test Page
• Auroral Large Imaging System (Sweden, quicklook images)
• Solar Terrestrial Dispatch Homepage
• Cosmic Ray Station, Moscow, Russia
• GEM Real-Time Spaceweather Links
• More Real Time Data

Space Weather Forecasts

• NOAA SEC Alerts, Forecasts, and Summaries
• The Paris-Meudon Observatory Solar and Geomagnetic Activity Forecast Center(France)
• Solar Activity Prediction Methods

What is Space Weather? (Educational Links)

Note: Overseas links tend to be slow due to limited transoceanic bandwidth.

• Space Weather: A Research Perspective (A good overview; New March 21, 1997.)
• National Space Weather Program: Strategic Plan (Technical Document)
• National Space Weather Program: Implementation Plan (Technical Document)
• Educational "Tours Galore" from NASA/ISTP (General)
• IMAGE Mission Educational Page (K-12)
• Rice Space Physics Public Outreach
• Rice Space Weather Page (General)
• NASA Goddard Space Science Education (General)
• The Magnetosphere (General)
• The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere (General)
• NOAA Space Environment Center Education and Outreach (General)
• User's Guide for NOAA/SEC Space Environment Forecasts (Technical)(NOAA)
• Planetary Magnetospheres (Advanced)
• Auroral Images (General)
• SSC Space Physics Tutorial (Advanced Collegiate)
• Exploring Space: Space Weather (K-12, General)
• Windows to the Universe: Space Weather (K-12)
• Three Related Magnetospheric Research Projects (Bilingual: Technical or General Audience)
• Solar/Space Weather (General)
• Solar Observation Homepage (General, K-12)
• Classifying Sunspot Groups (General)
• NGDC Ionosphere Home Page(General)
• What is Space Weather? (Collegiate) (Overseas: Sweden)
• Space Physics WWW Reference (Education section) (General) (Overseas: Finland)
• Space Physics Textbook (Collegiate) (Overseas: Finland)
• Educational Material from Australia's IPS Radio & Space Services (General) (Overseas: Australia)
• Iridium Flares (Satellites observable from Earth) (General)

Coordinated Data Analysis

• SPIDR: Space Physics Interactive Data Resource
• CDAWeb: Coordinated Data Analysis Website
• NASA SPOF Orbit & KP Survey Plots
• Satellite Situation Center (NASA GSFC)
• InterAgengy Consulting Group
• The World Space Weather Service
• International Auroral Study
• January 1997 Magnetic Cloud Event Study

Space Physics Models

• NSSDC Space Physics Models
• GSFC Magnetospheric Modeling Group
• Rice ElectroMagnetic Field Models
• Six Magnetic Field Models Compared: Mapping Geosynchronous Orbit to the Auroral Zone
• Magnetospheric Specification Model
• Magnetospheric Specification Forecast Model -- driven by WIND spacecraft data
• Assimilative Mapping of Ionospheric Electrodynamics
• Space Weather Aeronomical Response Models (U. of Michigan)
• Altitude-Adjusted Corrected Geomagnetic coordinate Model (AACGM)
• Real-Time UAF Eulerian Polar Ionosphere Model
• WBMOD Ionospheric Scintillation Model

Space Physics Observatories

• Radars

  • Interactive Map of Incoherent Scatter Radar Stations
  • Millstone Hill Haystack Observatory
  • Arecibo Observatory
  • Jicamarca Radar Observatory
  • EISCAT Scientific Association
  • Sondrestrom Facility
  • Institute of the Ionosphere - Kharkov, Ukraine (server in USA)
  • SuperDARN (Super Dual Auroral Radar Network)
  • CUTLASS Radar
  • STARE Radar
  • Alaska VHF Auroral Radar

• Riometers

  • IRIS (U. Calgary)

• Lidars

  Only listing lidars with some indication of mesopheric capabilities (80-100 km altitude range
  
  • GI-IAF Lidar
  • Antarctic Lidar
  • ALOMAR: Arctic Lidar Observatory for Middle Atmospheric Research
  • SOUSY Lidar
  • Purple Crow Lidar (U. of Western Ontario)

• Ionosondes

  • Millstone Hill Digisonde
  • Dynasonde at Tromsø, Norway
  • Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory Ionospheric Station
  • Swedish Ionosonde System
  • ARL/UT Ionosonde (Austin, Texas, USA)
  • NGDC Ionospheric Data Archive

• Magnetometers

  • Magnetometer Array on the Greenland Ice Cap (MAGIC)
  • Alaska Magnetometer Network
  • Magnetometer Array for Cusp and Cleft Studies
  • CANOPUS Magnetometer Array(Canada)
  • 210 Magnetic Meridian Network
  • Kiruna, Sweden
  • International Monitor for Auroral Geomagnetic Effects (IMAGE)
  • Pulsation Magnetometer Chain, U. of Oulu, Finland
  • Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory Magnetic Station
  • The Auroral Observatory, Tromsø, Norway
  • Real Time Magnetograms from South Australia (Flinders U.)
  • INTERMAGNET International Magnetometer Network
    • INTERMAGNET Data Request (UK)
    • INTERMAGNET Data Request(UK)
    • INTERMAGNET Data Request (France)
    • WDC-C2 Geomagnetism

• Cosmic Ray & Neutron Monitors

  • Cosmic Ray Station, Moscow, Russia

• Solar Observatories

  • Mt. Wilson Solar Tower (Calfornia, USA)
  • Big Bear Solar Observatory (California, USA)
  • National Solar Observatory (USA)
  • Mauna Loa Solar Observatory(Hawaii, USA)
  • Mees Solar Observatory (Hawaii, USA)
  • Learmonth Solar Observatory (Western Australia)
  • Catania Astrophysical Observatory (Italy)
  • Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma (Italy)
  • Solar Observatory, Universidad de Sonora (Mexico)
  • Observatorio de el Cerro Azul (Mexico)
  • LaPalma Observatory (Canary Islands)
  • The Paris-Meudon Solar Department (DASOP) (France)
  • The Bass 2000 Solar Data Base , Meudon Antenna (France)
  • The Nancay Radioheliograph (Paris Observatory) (France)
  • THEMIS [Heliographic Telescope for the Study of the Magnetism and Instabilities on the Sun] (France)
  • Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
  • Yohkoh Soft X-Ray Telescope (SXT)
  • Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE)
  • Nobeyama Radioheliograph (Japan)

• Optical Instruments

  • Poker Flat: Davis Science Operations Center
    • Alaska All-Sky Cameras
    • Fairchild All-Sky Imager
    • CANOPUS All-Sky Imager
    • U. Calgary Portable Auroral Imager
    • Alaska Meridian Scanning Photometers
  • Henriksen Auroral Station (Svalbard)
  • Auroral Large Imaging System
  • South Pole Station All-Sky Imager

• Sounding Rocket Facilities

  • Poker Flat Research Range
  • Andoya Rocket Range

• Satellites (some listed as Solar Observatories)

  • POLAR
    • MFE
    • TIMAS
    • TIDE
    • PWI
    • HYDRA
    • CEPPAD
    • CAMMICE
    • EFI
    • SEPS
    • PIXIE (Imager)
    • UVI (Imager)
      • U. of Washington
      • NASA MSFC
    • VIS (Imager)
  • WIND
    • SMS
    • SWE
    • MFI
  • Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE)
  • Cluster II / Phoenix
  • Geotail
  • SOHO
    • CELIAS MTOF Proton Monitor
  • Interball
    • Interball-Aurora
      • UV Auroral Imager
    • Interball-Tail
    • Interball/PROMICS-3
  • Equator-S
  • Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX)
  • AKEBONO
    • SMS: Suprathermal Mass Spectrometer
  • SAMPEX
  • Hawkeye
  • AMPTE
  • IMP-8
    • MIT Space Plasma Group
  • ISEE
  • FAST
  • UARS
  • Freja
    • Cold Plasma Analyzer
    • UV Imager
  • Oersted
  • GOES
    • GOES-7
    • GOES-8
  • LANL
    • CPA & SOPA
    • MPA
    • LANL 1989-046 (USA 39)
    • LANL 1990-095 (USA 65)
    • LANL 1991-080 (USA 75)
    • LANL 1994-084 (USA 107)
  • Dynamics Explorer (DE)
  • DMSP
    • SSIES
    • SSJ/4
    • SSM
    • NOAA Data Archive
    Ulysses
  • Voyager
    • Plasma Science Experiment
  • IMAGE (GSFC)
  • IMAGE (SwRI)
  • More satellites

• GPS-based Measurements

  • Ionospheric Total Electron Content
  • GPS-derived Total Electron Content
  • UNAVCO TEC (and PWV) from GPS(Southwestern USA)

• Computerized Ionospheric Tomography

  • ARL/UT Computerized Ionospheric Tomography

Space Physics Research Centers

• Non-Academic Centers

  • Solar Data Analysis Center
  • National Space Science Data Center
  • NSSDC Space Weather Assets
  • Space Weather Resources at Space Science Data Operations Office (SSDOO)
  • NOAA Space Environment Center
  • NRL Thermospheric and Ionospheric Physics Section
  • NRL Upper Atmospheric Physics Branch
  • USAF Research Laboratory - Space Hazards Branch
  • NASA Space Environment Effects
  • NCAR High Altitude Observatory
  • NASA MSFC Solar Physics
  • National Geophysical Data Center
  • World Data Center System
  • ISTP Science Planning and Operations Facility
  • International Space Physics Educational Consortium
  • SwRI Space Plasma Physics
  • Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory
  • Northwest Research Associates
  • Sterling Software Spacecast
  • British Antarctic Survey
  • Swedish Institute of Space Physics
  • Department of Geophysics, Finnish Meteorological Institute
  • Hiraiso Solar Terrestrial Research Center, Japan

• Academic Centers

  • Universities Space Research Association member institutions
  • Department of Space Physics & Astronomy, Rice University
  • Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA
  • William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, UTD
  • Center for Ionospheric Research, ARL/UT
  • Space Physics Lab, UNH
  • Space Physics Research Laboratory, U Michigan
  • Department of Physics & Astronomy, U Iowa
  • Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, U Colorado
  • U Kansas Space Physics
  • Geophysical Institude, U Alaska Fairbanks
    • Space Physics Theory and Simulation
    • Space Physics and Aeronomy Group
  • Center for Space Physics, Boston University
  • Space Science and Engineering Center, U Wisconsin-Madison
  • Stanford University Center for Space Science and Astrophysics
  • Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College, London, UK
  • Space Department, Applied Physics Lab, John Hopkins University
  • Space Physics Group, U. Maryland (College Park)
  • The MIT Space Plasma Group
  • Space Physics Group, Oulu, Finland
  • Radar Remote Sensing, Ionospheric Plasma Plasma, U. of Washington
  • Solar-Terrestrial Environment Lab, Nagoya U., Japan
  • Upper Atmosphere Research Collaboratory
  • Lund University's Space Weather Program
  • Geomagnetism at Flinders University, Australia
  • Institute of Space Research, U. of Calgary, Canada
  • A list of many more institutions

Technical Literature Indices

• Physics Journal Contents (by subject)
• Physics Journal Contents (alphabetical)
• NASA Astrophysics Data System (includes searchable abstract database)

Space Physics Professional Organizations & Programs

• NSF Division of Atmospheric Sciences
• NSF GEM (magnetosphere) program
• NSF CEDAR (ionosphere/thermosphere) program
• Interagency (NASA,ESA,ISAS,IKI) Coordinating Group
• International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Program
• AGU Space Physics & Aeronomy section
• Magnetospheric On-Line Data System
• Universities Space Research Association
• Alaska Space Grant Program
• Texas Space Grant Consortium
• NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts

Relevant Amateur Organizations

DX-Listener's Club(Norway)

Other Lists of Space Weather & Space Physics Links

• SWRI Space Physics Resources
• NASA/Goddard's Space Physics Resource List
• Space Physics On-Line Data System Navigator
• WWW Virtual Library: Aeronomy, Solar-Terrestrial Physics and Chemistry
• UCLA Directory of Space Physics WWW Sites
• U. of Iowa's Space Science Web Page List
• Space Weather Resources (From UT)
• Millstone Hill's Internet Links List
• Solar Physics Web Guide
• U Washington's Space Physics Hotlist