Current solar and geophysical information

The links below provide information on current solar and geophysical information

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• Classification of X-Ray solar flares
• Solar radio bursts – archive of recordings
• Space Weather Prediction Center
  Vast quantities of information from NOAA
• Solar-terrestrial activity report
  Jan Alvestad brings together daily information on solar indices (SSN, Flux, Ap, Kp, solar wind speeds) for the past two months
• North West Research Associates
  Another excellent space weather site—offers plots for the previous and current Bartels rotation, including solar flux, SSN and the T index from the IPS, daily Ap index, summary of solar and geophysical activity and comparison of sunspot number and solar flux indices; also real-time geomagnetic activity index estimates and real-time effective Q-index estimates.

For more detailed data, including time-series

• Geomagnetic data from UK observatories
  Current and historical, from the British Geological Survey
• F2-layer height maximum (near real-time map)
• NASA Solar Data Analysis Center
  Includes near real-time solar wind parameters
• NCEI ionospheric data and data archives
• SOHO homepage
  Includes current space weather graphics
• SOHO Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
• SOHO images (latest)
• Solar data from Mount Wilson Observatory
• Solar data plotting utility
  WA4TTK offers this program (v3.01), which is said to update solar flux and sunspot number databases automatically when it scans new propagation bulletins
• Space Weather Links from ESA
  List of space weather servers from the European Space Agency (ESA)
• Space Weather Services
  Data from the Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
• X-Ray absorption (near real-time maps)
  At 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30MHz