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.
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Educational site with links, articles, pictures, and movies.
What makes aurora?
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.
Auroral forecasts, educational material on aurora and related science, plus areas for other geophysics disciplines (earthquakes, volcanoes, climate, weather, glaciers, and tectonics).
Offers an overview of the effects of Sun interacting with different human activities.
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.
Image gallery of aurora, sun, sun-earth connection related material, movies, images from space.
Provides information on radio signals generated within the Earth's magnetosphere by lightning, geomagnetic storms and other natural phenomenon. Includes audio clips.
Offers experiment descriptions and data from a range of solar physics space instruments operated by the U.S. Navy.
NASA's 20 year plan setting priorities for Sun-Earth Connection research.
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.
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Provides NASA documents developing strategy for study of solar terrestrial connections.
Paper by James A. Marusek discusses and analyzes the various threats created by great solar storms.
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Software and space weather services, self study classes, aurora reports, aurora/space weather discussion forum.
Has available data from the Sun and near-Earth environment. Products and services include databases, images, posters, CD-ROMs and custom products.
Current conditions of solar and auroral activity.
Science news and information about the Sun-Earth environment.
Software and data products for real time displays and solar indices.
Lists the group members and research activities of the group with links to more information.
Introduction to solar events, solar wind, and what it means for Earth.
Resources for the SEC, from the research projects to the educational to the playful.
Educational site with links, articles, pictures, and movies.
Offers experiment descriptions and data from a range of solar physics space instruments operated by the U.S. Navy.
Current conditions of solar and auroral activity.
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.
Provides information on radio signals generated within the Earth's magnetosphere by lightning, geomagnetic storms and other natural phenomenon. Includes audio clips.
Paper by James A. Marusek discusses and analyzes the various threats created by great solar storms.
[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.
[PDF]
Offers an overview of the effects of Sun interacting with different human activities.
Software and data products for real time displays and solar indices.
What makes aurora?
Provides NASA documents developing strategy for study of solar terrestrial connections.
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.
Has available data from the Sun and near-Earth environment. Products and services include databases, images, posters, CD-ROMs and custom products.
Image gallery of aurora, sun, sun-earth connection related material, movies, images from space.
Auroral forecasts, educational material on aurora and related science, plus areas for other geophysics disciplines (earthquakes, volcanoes, climate, weather, glaciers, and tectonics).
Science news and information about the Sun-Earth environment.
Introduction to solar events, solar wind, and what it means for Earth.
Resources for the SEC, from the research projects to the educational to the playful.
Software and space weather services, self study classes, aurora reports, aurora/space weather discussion forum.
NASA's 20 year plan setting priorities for Sun-Earth Connection research.
Lists the group members and research activities of the group with links to more information.
