ONLINE RESOURCES
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
REAL-TIME SPACE WEATHER RESOURCES (RED = dead link)
- ACE Real Time Solar Wind
- Today's Space Weather (NOAA)
- Big Bear Solar Activity Reports(BBSO)
- Real-Time Magnetopause and Bow Shock Model
- Current Auroral Oval Position
- SuperDARN/ISR Global Real-Time Ionospheric Convection
- Estimated Auroral Activity from NOAA/TIROS
- IZMEM Space Weather Forecast
- Alaska Auroral Prediction Service
- Australian Space Weather Forecasting Centre
- Latest Solar Wind Observations (Rice, dials of solar wind conditions and the current magnetic field and convection maps estimated from the ACE data)
- Current Predictions of the Dst index, AL index, AU index, and AE index Using Real-time ACE or DSCOVR Data (Colorado)
- SOHO CELIAS MTOF Latest 48 Hours of Solar Wind Data
- USGS Geomagnetism Program
- 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
- Global Ionospheric Map (JPL)
- Space Weather Canada
- Kiruna Magnetometer (Sweden)
- Norwegian Centre for Space Weather
- Sodankyla Magnetometer (Finland)
- Solar Terrestrial Dispatch Homepage
- Cosmic Ray Station, Moscow, Russia
- GEM Real-Time Spaceweather Links
- More Real Time Data
Space Weather Forecasts
- Current Solar Forecast (NOAA)
- CYCLE, FLARES and COSMIC RADIATION at LESIA (France)
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)
- 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)
- Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets (Advanced)
- Windows to the Universe: Space Weather (K-12)
- Classifying Sunspot Groups (General)
- NGDC Ionosphere Home Page(General)
Coordinated Data Analysis
- Space Weather Relevant Assets at NASA's National Space Science Data Center
- CDAWeb: Coordinated Data Analysis Website
- Satellite Situation Center (NASA GSFC)
- Interagency Operations Advisory Group
Major Modeling Efforts
- NSSDC Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling (CISM)
- Center for Space Environment Modeling (CSEM)
Space Physics Models
- NSSDC Space Physics Models
- Rice Convection Model
- Assimilative Mapping of Ionospheric Electrodynamics
- Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF) (U. of Michigan)
- Community Coordinated Modeling Center
Space Physics Observatories
- National Solar Observatory
- 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)
- STARE Radar
- High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP)
- Lidar Research Laboratory (UAF GI)
- Australian Antarctic Lidar
- ALOMAR: Arctic Lidar Observatory for Middle Atmospheric Research
- Millstone Hill Digisonde
- Dynasonde at Tromsø, Norway
- Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory Ionospheric Station
- Swedish Ionosonde System
- Space and Geophysics Laboratory (UT Austin Applied Research Laboratories)
- Magnetometer Array on the Greenland Ice Cap (MAGIC)
- Magnetometer Array for Cusp and Cleft Studies
- Canadian Array for Realtime Investigations of Magnetic Activity(CARISMA)
- 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
- World Data Center for Geomagnetism, Kyoto
- 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)
- 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
- Henriksen Auroral Station (Svalbard)
- Auroral Large Imaging System
- POLAR
- WIND
- Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE)
- Cluster II / Phoenix (Rice)
- Geotail
- SOHO
- Interball
- Equator-S
- Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX)
- Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS)
- AKEBONO
- SAMPEX
- Hawkeye
- AMPTE
- IMP-8
- ISEE
- FAST
- UARS
- Freja
- Oersted
- GOES
- LANL
- Dynamics Explorer (DE)
- DMSP
- Ulysses
- Voyager
- IMAGE (Rice)
- 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 (NASA)
- NOAA Space Environment Center
- NRL Thermospheric and Ionospheric Physics Section
- 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
- Heliosphysics at SwRI
- Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory
- Northwest Research Associates
- Metatech Applied Power Solutions Division and Sterling Software Spacecast
- British Antarctic Survey
- Swedish Institute of Space Physics
- Department of Geophysics, Finnish Meteorological Institute
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
- Space and Geophysics Laboratory (SGL), ARL/UT
- UNH Space Science Center (SSC)
- 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 Science and Engineering, John Hopkins University
- Space Physics, U. Maryland (College Park)
- The MIT Space Plasma Group
- Space Physics Group, Oulu, Finland
- Solar-Terrestrial Environment Lab, Nagoya U., Japan
- 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 Innovative Advanced Concepts
Relevant Amateur Organizations
- DX-Listener's Club (Norway)
GPS FAQ - reviews, forums, articles
Other Lists of Space Weather & Space Physics Links
Updated: Oct 10, 2024
