Information about the Aurora borealis

During the aurora events of the year 2000 I found a lot of information about this phenomenon on the internet. With this page I try to give a summarized list of th information sources. This should help to avoid unnecessary searches on the internet during coming events. In contrast to many other webpages, I am not including lots of graphics here, but only give the links to the original sources. With many link I give examples on my local webspace, displaying the individual plot or website as it looked during the extrem class G5 storm of 2000 July 15/16. The order of the given list is just random and has no special meaning.

1. basic information and overviews

THE space-weather page Spaceweather.com english
Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) up to date spaceweather
daily prediction of solar activity (example)
daily list of solar events
english
Arbeitskreis Meteore aurora prediction overview with IPS solar wind plot (example) german
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) up to date spaceweather english
N3KL.org summary of solar activity data (GOES)
inofficial GOES archiv
english
IPS Australia IPS Radio & Space Services
e-mail warnings
solar wind plot (example)
english
Lancaster University AuroraWatch UK
e-mail warnings
english
power input / visibility aurora visibility prediction from STD (example) english
CARISMA Aurora-Oval auroral oval from magnetometer data (example) english
Kp index model Wing Kp model of the last 12 hours
Wing Kp model of the last 24 hours (example)
Wing Kp model of the last 7 days (example)
english
magnetometer location Kiel (Germany) (example)
location Braunschweig (Germany) mit Archiv (example)
location Fürstenfeldbruck (Germany)
location Kiruna (Sweden) (example)
german
or
english
solen.info Solar Terrestrial Activity Report english
aurora pages by Thomas Sävert another summary of data german
spaceweather archiv all data and plots of special events english

2. data from satellites

ACE solar wind data
(example)
data of the last 2 hours
data of the last 6 hours
data of the last 24 hours
data of the last 3 days
data of the last 7 days
english
ACE magnetometer data
(example)
data of the last 2 hours
data of the last 6 hours
data of the last 24 hours
data of the last 3 days
data of the last 7 days
english
ACE proton data data of the last 2 hours
data of the last 6 hours
data of the last 24 hours
data of the last 3 days
data of the last 7 days
english
GOES satellite data x-ray flux ( 6 hours) (example X22 )
x-ray flux (3 days) (example)
proton flux (3 days) (example)
electron flux (3 days) (example)
magnetometer data (3 days) (example)
Kp index (3 days) (example)
combination of the 3 day data (example)
english
POES satellite data auroral ovals (example) english
Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) latest SDO images english
Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) latest STEREO images english
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) (example) latest SOHO images
data from the SOHO proton monitor
english

3. reports, warnings, sightings and software

Solar Terrestrial Dispatch daily aurora report (example)

latest aurora WATCH (example)
latest aurora WARNING (example)
latest geomagn. storm WARNING (example)

reported aurora sightings

explanation of SWIM
english

4. boards and chats

Polarlicht-Forum (AKM) board german
english welcome
Polarlicht-Chat (AKM) chat german
english welcome
Wetterzentrale board german
STD Forum board english
spaceweather IRC channel informations english
Yahoo! group auroral observing maillinglist english

5. explanations, glossary and others

tips on the auroral photography text by Dieter Raith german
radio and aurora
example NORMAL / AURORA (.wav)
text by Udo Langenohl (DK5YA) german
x-ray flares classification from C over M to X english
optical solar flares (H-alpha) classification from 1 to 4 english
geomagnetic storms (Kp) classification from 0 to 9 english
classification of sunspots Mc Intosh classes from A to H (grafics) german
magnetic fields in sunspots classification from alpha to delta english
solarwind velocity/-density explanation of the data english
coronal holes explanation of the phenomenon english
geomagnetic storms (G1-5)
radiation storms (S1-5)
radio blackouts (R1-5)
classification of the events english
magnetometer home build! Simple Aurora Monitor (SAM) by Karsten Hansky and Dirk Langenbach
SAM-Europe project pages
expedition magnetometer by Klaus Bagschik
english
and
german

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