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Websites in Sun-Earth Interaction

1. Auroras: Self Guided Tour
   What makes aurora?
   http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/auroras/happen.html
   
   
2. Current Space Weather
   Links to 27 day period condegrams of solar and geomagnetic indices, solar wind observations, and magnetospheric observations.
   http://thing.pfrr.alaska.edu/conde/swx_dnld.asp
   
   
3. Earth-Sun Geometry
   Textbook type description of the Earth's orbit.
   http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/physgeog/contents/6h.html
   
   
4. Exploratorium: Solar Eclipse: Sun-Earth Connection (Page 1 of 5)
   A 5-page introduction to solar events, solar wind, and what it means for Earth.
   http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/cmes.html
   
   
5. Geophysical Institute, UAF
   Auroral forecasts, educational material on aurora and related science, plus areas for other geophysics disciplines (earthquakes, volcanoes, climate, weather, glaciers, and tectonics).
   http://www.gi.alaska.edu/
   
   
6. International Solar Terrestrial Physics (ISTP)
   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.
   http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/
   
   
7. Mission to Geospace
   Educational site with lots of links, articles, pictures, movies.
   http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/
   
   
8. Mission to geospace image gallery
   Image gallery of aurora, sun, sun-earth connection related material, movies, images from space.
   http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/coolpics.html
   
   
9. N1BUG Web
   Space weather effects of interest for (HAM) amateur radio operators. VHF/UHF DX. VHF/UHF weak signal information.
   http://www.n1bug.net/
   
   
10. NASA's Cosmic and Heliospheric Learning Center -- Sun -- Earth's Magnetosphere
    Brief description of the magnetosphere, news on magnetospheric research.
    http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/magnet.html
    
    
11. NASA's Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum (SECEF)
    Brochure and CD-ROM develeoped by ideum
    http://www.ideum.com/secbrochure.html
    
    
12. Realtime space weather data.
    A maintained list of links to real time data related to space weather and aurora.
    http://odin.gi.alaska.edu/lumm/RealTime/
    
    
13. SEC Roadmap
    NASA's 20 year plan setting priorities for Sun-Earth Connection research.
    http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/spd/secr/
    
    
14. SECCHI - Sun Earth Connection Coronal Heliospheric Observatory
    NASA mission to advance the understanding of the three-dimensional structure of the Sun?s corona
    http://projects.nrl.navy.mil/secchi/index.html
    
    
15. Solar Events: NASA's Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum
    Solar Events for your school, classroom, museum, or community group is a listing of all events relating to the sun, moon and sky and is hosted by NASA and the Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum.
    http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/evsecef.htm
    
    
16. Solar Terrestrial Activity Report
    Contains daily updates of solar and geomagnetic data relevant to the reception of distant radio stations.
    http://dxlc.com/solar/
    
    
17. Solar Terrestrial Dispatch
    Software and space weather services, self study classes, aurora reports, aurora/space weather discussion forum.
    http://www.spacew.com/
    
    
18. Solar-Terrestrial Energy Program: results, applications, modeling
    A cooperative project among The Scientific Committee for Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP), Solar-Terrestrial Physics - Results, Applications, and Modeling Phase (S-RAMP) Project.
    http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/SRAMP/sramp.html
    
    
19. Solar-Terrestrial Physics & Space Weather Group
    Description of solar physics and space weather research from Universidad de Barcelona, Spain.
    http://www.am.ub.es/~blai/grupospacew_UB.html
    
    
20. Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division of the National Geophysical Data Center
    Has available data from the Sun and near-Earth environment. Products and services include databases, images, posters, CD-ROMs and custom products.
    http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/stp.html
    
    
21. Space Environment Center
    Access to the latest space weather data and space weather prediction.
    http://www.sec.noaa.gov/
    
    
22. Space Physics Models
    Models for the neutral atmosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere, geomagnetic field.
    http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/space/model/models_home.html
    
    
23. Space Weather
    Current conditions of solar and auroral activity.
    http://www.windows.ucar.edu/spaceweather/
    
    
24. Space Weather Prediction
    Real time prediction of large geomagnetic storms.
    http://ppdweb.nrl.navy.mil/whatsnew/prediction/
    
    
25. Space Weather: A Research Perspective
    Brief but good introduction to space weather. Explanation of space weather related terms.
    http://www.nas.edu/ssb/elements.html
    
    
26. Space science education
    Public outreach, education, and teaching on space physics topics. Includes classroom activities and study guides.
    http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/
    
    
27. SpaceWeather.com
    Science news and information about the Sun-Earth environment.
    http://www.spaceweather.com/
    
    
28. SpaceWx - Advanced Space Weather Products and Services
    Software and data products for real time displays and solar indices.
    http://SpaceWx.com/
    
    
29. Sun Block '99
    Young people explore science, special emphasis on curriculum and school activities for Northern Ireland and Scotland.
    http://www.sunblock99.org.uk/
    
    
30. Sun Earth Connection Education Forum 2000
    Classroom activities (mostly 6-12), educational material, information on NASA missions, image gallery, and news.
    http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/
    
    
31. Sun-Earth Connection EPO Newsletter Archives
    Newsletter in PDF format.
    http://sunearth.ssl.berkeley.edu/SECNews/
    
    
32. Sun-Earth Connection Program: Educational Brief
    Brief overview of the scope of NASA's SEC program.
    http://edmall.gsfc.nasa.gov/inv99Project.Site/Pages/science-briefs/ed-stickler/sun-earth.html
    
    
33. The Earth Sun Connection
    Puts special emphasis on the effect on radio communication.
    http://www.realscience.com/solar.htm
    
    
34. The Lion Roars
    Educational material on the magnetosphere. Listen to the sounds of space plasma!
    http://wwwssl.msfc.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/sppb/edu/
    
    
35. The Sun and Climate
    Popular science article by Judith Lean and David Rind.
    http://www.gcrio.org/CONSEQUENCES/winter96/sunclimate.html
    
    
36. The Sun-Earth Connection
    Resources for the SEC, from the research projects to the educational to the playful.
    http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/sun-earth.html
    
    
37. The Sun-Earth Connection
    An introduction to space plasma physics provided by Auburn University's Space Plasma Physics Page. Covers the sun-earth connection, the sun, solar wind, the magnetospere, and aurorae.
    http://www.physics.auburn.edu/~plasma/space/sunearth.html
    
    
38. The Sun-Earth connection
    Web based study course at Wilkes University.
    http://course.wilkes.edu/ED526DT/introduction
    
    
39. Today's Space Weather
    Real time data from the sun, solar wind, magnetosphere, ionosphere, and links to predictions and educational pages.
    http://www.sec.noaa.gov/today.html
    
    
40. Tyrell Corp. Solar Storm Monitor
    Satellite data of solar storms, geomagnetic storms, x-ray flux, solar wind, aurora, and current space weather bulletins.
    http://www.geocities.com/solarstormmonitor/
    
    

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