{"id":718,"date":"2012-07-07T08:41:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T08:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.rsgbtestzone.biz\/wordpress\/?page_id=718"},"modified":"2024-05-09T12:49:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T11:49:04","slug":"current-solar-and-geophysical-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/technical\/propagation\/current-solar-and-geophysical-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Current solar and geophysical information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-24436 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2020\/03\/solar_flare.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2020\/03\/solar_flare.png 600w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2020\/03\/solar_flare-300x106.png 300w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2020\/03\/solar_flare-150x53.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>The links below provide information on current solar and geophysical information<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The RSGB is not responsible for the content of external websites, or for issues caused by any software downloaded from them.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/glossary\/flareclasses.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Classification of X-Ray solar flares<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heliotown.com\/Radio_Sun_Introduction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Solar radio bursts &#8211; archive of recordings<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Space Weather Prediction Center<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nVast quantities of information from NOAA<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solen.info\/solar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solar-terrestrial activity report<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nJan Alvestad brings together daily information on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solen.info\/solar\/indices.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">solar indices<\/a><\/strong> (SSN, Flux, Ap, Kp, solar wind speeds) for the past two months<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/spawx.nwra.com\/spawx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>North West Research Associates<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nAnother excellent space weather site\u2014offers plots for the previous and current Bartels rotation, including <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwra.com\/spawx\/f10.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">solar flux<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwra.com\/spawx\/ssne.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SSN and the T index<\/a><\/strong> from the IPS, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwra.com\/spawx\/ap.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>daily Ap index<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwra.com\/spawx\/listsgas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>summary of solar and geophysical activity<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwra.com\/spawx\/comp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>comparison of sunspot number and solar flux indices<\/strong><\/a>; also <a href=\"https:\/\/spawx.nwra.com\/spawx\/kpsw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>real-time geomagnetic activity index estimates<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/spawx.nwra.com\/spawx\/qesw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>real-time effective Q-index estimates<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>For more detailed data, including time-series<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk\/data_service\/space_weather\/solar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Geomagnetic data from UK observatories<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nCurrent and historical, from the British Geological Survey<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacew.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>F2-layer height maximum (near real-time map)<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/umbra.nascom.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>NASA Solar Data Analysis Center<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nIncludes near real-time solar wind parameters<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngdc.noaa.gov\/stp\/IONO\/ionohome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NCEI ionospheric data and data archives<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/soho.nascom.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOHO homepage<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nIncludes current space weather graphics<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/umbra.nascom.nasa.gov\/eit\/EIT.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOHO\u00a0Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov\/data\/realtime-images.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SOHO images (latest)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obs.astro.ucla.edu\/intro.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Solar data from Mount Wilson Observatory<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigcentral.com\/sol.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solar data plotting utility<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nWA4TTK offers this program (v3.01), which is said to update solar flux and sunspot number databases automatically when it scans new propagation bulletins<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geo.fmi.fi\/spee\/links_all.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Space Weather Links from ESA<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nList of space weather servers from the European Space Agency (ESA)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sws.bom.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Space Weather Services<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nData from the Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacew.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">X-Ray absorption (near real-time maps)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nAt 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30MHz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The links below provide information on current solar and geophysical information The RSGB is not responsible for the content of external websites, or for issues caused by any software downloaded from them. Classification of X-Ray solar flares Solar radio bursts &#8211; archive of recordings Space Weather Prediction Center Vast quantities of information from NOAA Solar-terrestrial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":657,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-718","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/718\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}