Heliophysics Resources

NASA Organizations

• NASA
• NASA Heliophysics
• NASA Heliophysics Data
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
• NASA Goddard Sciences
• NASA Goddard Heliophysics Science Division
• NASA Heliophysics Education and Public Outreach
• HDRL - Heliophysics Digital Resource Library
• NASA Center for HelioAnalytics
• Transform to Open Science (TOPS)

International Heliophysics Organizations

• IHDEA - International Heliophysics Data Environment Alliance
• COSPAR Panel on Space Weather
• SCOSTEP PRESTO Program
• United Nations International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI)
• COSPAR International Space Weather Action Teams (ISWAT)
• Space Physics and Aeronomy Section of AGU

Search Services

• Heliophysics Data Portal search across a comprehensive set of datasets, images, movies, and associated services using SPASE descriptions
• SPASE Data Model and Dictionary
• SPASE HPDE GitHub Repository
• Heliophysics Events Knowledgebase
• NSSDC SPASE Query for person, observatory and instrument descriptions
• Heliophysics System Observatory (HSO) Connect
• NASA Science Discovery Engine
• ADS bibliographic search

Other Heliophysics Resources

• HelioCloud heliophysics cloud resources
• Helionauts discussion group
• Science Visualization Studio
• Whole Heliosphere and Planetary Interactions

Submit Data to SDAC and SPDF

• New mission data requirements
• Overview of SPDF Data Submission Guidelines and Procedures
• Registering Data Products with SPASE metadata descriptions
• ISTP Metadata Guidelines for Data File Internal Metadata
• Recommended file and data collection naming practices
• Heliophysics URI Template Standard

SPDF

• About SPDF
• Data Use Policy
• Staff
• Usage Statistics
• Acknowledgements
• History
• SPDF Feedback/Support

SPDF Data Access & Orbit Services

• Linking Missions and Services
• CDAWeb (data browser)
• CDAWeb Inside IDL
• OMNIWeb Plus (now including COHOWeb, ATMOWeb, FTP Browser, HelioWeb and CGM)
• SSCWeb (orbit search)
• 4D Orbit Viewer
• GIFWalk data and orbit plots
• Direct HTTPS file access
• Alternative Data Access Methods
• Heliophysics Data (search) Portal
• Heliophysics API (HAPI)
• Get solar data - SDAC and VSO
• More information on Data Access for New Users

SPDF Software

• CDF (Common Data Format)
• CDF/netCDF/FITS/HDF/XML/ASCII Format Translations
• CDF SKTEditor
• MakeCDF
• CDAWlib (IDL)
• CDFX (IDL)
• ViSBARD (visualization)
• CDAWeb Web Service API
• SSCWeb Web Service API
• Heliophysics Data Portal Web Service API and Python code

Other Software

• Solar image viewer Helioviewer or the ESA advanced JHelioviewer
• IDL SolarSoft and https://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/surf/sswdoc/
• Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC)
• Heliophysics API (HAPI) streaming protocol
• Space Physics Environment Data Analysis Software (SPEDAS) IDL analysis code
• PySPEDAS Python analysis code

Self-describing and Self-documenting Data Formats

• Common Data Format (CDF)
• Flexible Image Transport System (FITS)
• Network Common Data Form (netCDF)
• Hierarchical Data Format (HDF)

Modeling

• CCMC - Community Coordinated Modeling Center
• ModelWeb at CCMC
• Virtual Space Weather Modelling Centre (VSWMC) General Data Services - Modelling within the ESA Space Weather Service Network and the Center for Heliospheric Science (CHS) of Nagoya University

Data Access Protocols

• Heliophysics API (HAPI) for time series data
• Coordinated Data Analysis System (CDAS) Web services
• Virtual Solar Observatory (VSO)
• International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA), Table Access Protocol (TAP), https://solarnet.oma.be/
• Europlanet TAP (EPN-TAP) extended version of TAP for planetary data and http://www.europlanet-vespa.eu/standards.shtml
• Virtual European Solar and Planetary Access (VESPA)
• Satellite Situation Center (SSC) Web services
• Space Weather Technology, Research & Education Center
• SWx TREC Space Weather Data Portal

Event Lists

• Heliospheric Cataloguing, Analysis and Techniques Service (HELCATS) solar and solar wind events
• Coordinated Data Analysis Workshop (CDAW) Data Center.
• Multi-satellite Bow Shock Database
• Multi-satellite Magnetopause Crossing Database
• Space Weather Database of Notifications, Knowledge, Information (DONKI)

Heliophysics Virtual Resources

• VSO - Virtual Solar Observatory
• VEPO - Virtual Energetic Particle Observatory
• VWO - Virtual Wave Observatory
• Heliophysics Digital Observatory (HDO)

Data Repositories and Archives

NASA

• SPDF - Space Physics Data Facility
• SDAC - Solar Data Analysis Center
• SDAC VSO - Virtual Solar Observatory
• NSSDCA - National Space Science Data Coordinated Archive
• Other NASA Archives
• More NASA Data

Other USA

• NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
• NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
• NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
• High Altitude Observatory (HAO)
• National Solar Observatory (NSO)
• Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
• Open Madrigal Initiative, MIT Haystack Observatory / NSF Geospace data
• SuperDARN Ionospheric coherent radar network, based at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, USA
• SuperMAG Ground-based magnetometers network, based at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, USA
• Active Magnetosphere and Planetary Electrodynamics Response Experiment (AMPERE) magnetic perturbation data derived from the Iridium constellation

Canada

• Canadian Space Science Data Portal (CSSDP) and Space weather data and plots researcher access to space science analytic tools and data
• AuroraX Auroral data and tools for researchers and citizen scientists
• AUTUMN Virtual Magnetic Observatory data from the Athabasca University Geophysical Observatory (AUGO)

Europe

• European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) Science Data Centre (ESDC)
• Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) Centre des Données de la Physique des Plasmas (CDPP) (Heliophysics data generated by CNES heliophysics missions and CNES-financed experiments)
• Automated Multi-Dataset Analysis (AMDA) integrated analysis of multi-point and multi-instrument data
• ESA space weather service network (Ground-based and space-based measurements, together with near Earth solar wind forecasts based on real time simulations)
• ESA Earth Observation Virtual environments for Earth Scientists (VirES) (Data, indices, and value added higher products and services from the ESA SWARM mission and ionospheric missions and other Earth’s magnetic field related missions)
• ESA’s Space Situational Awareness (SSA) Space Weather (SWE) Web Portal
• EU Near-Earth space data infrastructure for e-Science (ESPAS) access to observations, modeling and prediction of the near-Earth space environment extending from the Earth’s atmosphere up to the outer radiation belts
• EU Integrated Medium for Planetary Exploration (IMPEx) interactive computational framework where data from planetary missions are interconnected with numerical models
• German Research Centre for Geosciences data center for geo-scientific data, documentation, and software tools (http://isdc.gfz-potsdam.de/)
• Plasma Physics Data Center (CDPP)

Asia and Australia

• Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Data ARchives and Transmission System (DARTS) (Multi-disciplinary space science data archive)
• Australian Space Weather Service (ASWS) provides a range of space weather products and services

International

• IUGONET unified metadata database and seamless data environment for ground-based observations of the upper atmosphere acquired by a global network of radars, magnetometers, optical sensors, helioscopes, etc.
• Inter-university Upper Atmosphere Global Observatory Network (IUGONET) ground-based and space-based solar and non-solar measurements
• International Real-time Magnetic Observatory Network (INTERMAGNET) ground-based magnetometer data collections
• Zenodo for preserving and sharing research data, backed by European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) data center

Mission Websites

• Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) Science Center
• Cluster Science Archive (CSA)
• Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace (ERG) science center, Nagoya, Japan
• Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) Data Releases
• Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) science data center LASP at CU Boulder, USA
• Parker Solar Probe Science Gateway
• ESA Proba-2 science center, Brussels, Belgium
• Solar Orbiter ARchive (SOAR)
• Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) Science Center
• THEMIS mission data service at UC Berkeley, USA

Old Mission Pages

• IMP-8
• IMP-8 GME
• ISIS/Alouette Topside Sounder Data Restoration Project

Education

Radio JOVE

ComPADRE

Perspectives on Plasmas

Educational Web Sites on Astronomy, Physics, Spaceflight and the Earth’s Magnetism

Mission to Geospace

Old Resources

• LunaSOX - Lunar Solar Origins Exploration
• Polar Gateways Artic Circle Sunrise 2008 conference
• Sonification

Acronyms and Websites