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Space Weather studies the environmental dynamics of "geospace": the active (and sometimes stormy) region above the Earth's lower atmosphere including the ionosphere (which often reflects AM radio waves back to Earth) and the magnetosphere (home of the Van Allen radiation belts and the environment of many spacecraft -- including the numerous geosynchronous satellites used for communications and other applications.) The following list gives active links to information about space weather and associated fields of scientific research.
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CONTENTS
- Radars
- Lidars
- Ionosondes
- Magnetometers
- Cosmic Ray & Neutron Monitors
- Solar Observatories
- Optical Instruments
- Sounding Rocket Facilities
- Satellites
- Computerized Ionospheric Tomography
REAL-TIME SPACE WEATHER RESOURCES
- 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
- 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
- LANL Geosynchronous Energetic Particle Data
- North American Ionospheric Total Electron Content Maps
- USGS Geomagnetism Program
- 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 SOHO)
- Current Solar Images: Mt. Wilson Solar Tower
- Millstone Hill Digisonde (Latest Ionogram)
- Ionospheric Scintillation Predictions
- GPS-based Ionospheric TEC Measurements
- Geological Survey of Canada: Geomagnetic Forecasts
- CANOPUS Real Time Magnetometer and Riometer (MARIA) 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)
- Space Weather: A Research Perspective (A good overview; PDF; New March 21, 1997.)
- National Space Weather Program: Strategic Plan (Technical Document)
- National Space Weather Program: Implementation Plan (Technical Document)
- Mission to Geospace (General; Beautifull Pictures)
- IMAGE Mission Educational Page (K-12)
- Rice Space Physics Public Outreach
- NASA Goddard Space Science Education (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)
- SSC Space Physics Tutorial (Advanced Collegiate)
- Exploring Space: Space Weather (K-12, General)
- Windows to the Universe: Space Weather (K-12)
- 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
Major Modeling Efforts
- NSSDC Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling (CISM)
- Center for Space Environment Modeling (CSEM)
Space Physics Models
- NSSDC Space Physics Models
- GSFC Magnetospheric Modeling Group
- Six Magnetic Field Models Compared: Mapping Geosynchronous Orbit to the Auroral Zone
- Magnetospheric Specification Model
- 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
- 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
- GI-IAF Lidar
- Antarctic Lidar
- ALOMAR: Arctic Lidar Observatory for Middle Atmospheric Research
- SOUSY Lidar
- Purple Crow Lidar (U. of Western Ontario)
- 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
- Magnetometer Array on the Greenland Ice Cap (MAGIC)
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- POLAR
- WIND
- Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE)
- Cluster II / Phoenix (Rice)
- Geotail
- SOHO
- Interball
- Equator-S
- Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX)
- MMS-SMART
- AKEBONO
- SAMPEX
- Hawkeye
- AMPTE
- IMP-8
- ISEE
- FAST
- UARS
- Freja
- Oersted
- GOES
- 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 Ulysses
- Voyager
- IMAGE
- IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer)
- GPS-based Measurements
Space Physics Research 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 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
- 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
- Geomagnetism at Flinders University, Australia
- Institute of Space Research, U. of Calgary, Canada
Technical Literature Indices
- 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
- 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)
GPS FAQ - reviews, forums, articles
Other Lists of Space Weather & Space Physics Links
- WWW Virtual Library: Aeronomy, Solar-Terrestrial Physics and Chemistry
- Space Weather Resources (From UT)
- Millstone Hill's Internet Links List
- Solar Physics Web Guide
- Foto Search Stock Image Space Weather
Updated: July 1, 2008
