Directory of Sun-Earth Interaction Resources

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Sun-Earth interaction is manifested in solar radiation interacting with Earth's upper atmosphere, and solar wind which interacts with the Earth's magnetic field and Earth's plasma environment. Sun-Earth interaction leads to space weather. It includes studies of the sun, the solar atmosphere, the solar wind, the geospace environment, and the upper atmosphere. A spectacular example of Sun-Earth interaction is the aurora.

Subcategories

• Atmospheric Physics
• Aurora

Resources in This Category

• Auroras: Self Guided Tour

  http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/auroras/happen.html
  What makes aurora?

• Exploration Physics International, Inc.

  http://www.expi.com/
  Offers commercial space weather forecasting services and products; real-time predictions of solar wind effects. Includes example forecast of the interplanetary magnetic field. Based in Huntsville, Alabama, USA.

• Geophysical Institute, UAF

  http://www.gi.alaska.edu/
  Auroral forecasts, educational material on aurora and related science, plus areas for other geophysics disciplines (earthquakes, volcanoes, climate, weather, glaciers, and tectonics).

• Glossary of Solar-Terrestrial Terms

  http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/GLOSSARY/glossary.html
  Extensive list of terms used in Solar-Terrestrial physics.

• International Solar Terrestrial Physics (ISTP)

  http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/
  NASA program that studies Sun-Earth interaction with links to an educational component of the program and includes detailed information on a number of satellites and data.

• Mission to Geospace

  http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/
  Educational site with links, articles, pictures, and movies.

• Mission to geospace image gallery

  http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/coolpics.html
  Image gallery of aurora, sun, sun-earth connection related material, movies, images from space.

• NASA's Cosmic and Heliospheric Learning Center -- Sun -- Earth's Magnetosphere

  http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/magnet.html
  Brief description of the magnetosphere, news on magnetospheric research.

• Natural Radio Lab

  http://www.naturalradiolab.com/
  Provides information on radio signals generated within the Earth's magnetosphere by lightning, geomagnetic storms and other natural phenomenon. Includes audio clips.

• Naval Research Laboratory Solar Physics Branch

  http://wwwsolar.nrl.navy.mil/
  Offers experiment descriptions and data from a range of solar physics space instruments operated by the U.S. Navy.

• SEC Roadmap

  http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/spd/secr/
  NASA's 20 year plan setting priorities for Sun-Earth Connection research.

• SECCHI - Sun Earth Connection Coronal Heliospheric Observatory

  http://secchi.nrl.navy.mil/
  NASA mission to advance the understanding of the three-dimensional structure of the sun's corona.

• Solar "Grand Minima" Threat Analysis

  http://www.breadandbutterscience.com/SGMTA.pdf
  A Grand Minima is a period lasting several decades when the sun is magnetically quiet producing very few sunspots. In the past these periods corresponded to Little Ice Ages. This paper by James A. Marusek1 provides an analysis of this threat.

• Solar Connections

  http://umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov/solar_connections.html
  Provides NASA documents developing strategy for study of solar terrestrial connections.

• Solar Storm Threat Analysis

  http://www.breadandbutterscience.com/SSTA.pdf
  Paper by James A. Marusek discusses and analyzes the various threats created by great solar storms.

• Solar Terrestrial Dispatch

  http://www.spacew.com/
  Software and space weather services, self study classes, aurora reports, aurora/space weather discussion forum.

• Solar-Terrestrial Physics & Space Weather Group

  http://www.am.ub.es/~blai/grupospacew_UB.html
  Description of solar physics and space weather research from Universidad de Barcelona, Spain.

• Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division of the National Geophysical Data Center

  http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/stp.html
  Has available data from the Sun and near-Earth environment. Products and services include databases, images, posters, CD-ROMs and custom products.

• Space Environment Center

  http://www.sec.noaa.gov/
  Access to the latest space weather data and space weather prediction.

• Space science education

  http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/
  Public outreach, education, and teaching on space physics topics. Includes classroom activities and study guides.

• Space Weather

  http://www.windows2universe.org/spaceweather/
  Current conditions of solar and auroral activity.

• SpaceWeather.com

  http://www.spaceweather.com/
  Science news and information about the Sun-Earth environment.

• SpaceWx - Advanced Space Weather Products and Services

  http://spacewx.com/
  Software and data products for real time displays and solar indices.

• Stanford Solar Physics Research Group

  http://sun.stanford.edu/
  Lists the group members and research activities of the group with links to more information.

• Sun-Earth Connection

  http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/cmes.html
  Introduction to solar events, solar wind, and what it means for Earth.

• The Human Impacts of Solar Storms and Space Weather

  http://www.solarstorms.org/
  Offers an overview of the effects of Sun interacting with different human activities.

• The Sun-Earth connection

  http://course.wilkes.edu/ED526DT/introduction
  Web based study course at Wilkes University.

• The Sun-Earth Connection

  http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/sun-earth.html
  Resources for the SEC, from the research projects to the educational to the playful.

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