International Space Weather Initiative
DATA ACCESS
1. African Dual Frequency GPS Network (AMMA)
Lead Scientist: Dr. Christine Amory-Mazaudier (CETP&CNRS) France
AMMA provides access to raw data in standard RINEX format (see notes)
Access to the data: free on the web for everybody (but password protected, you need registration)
Data are available online at the following Web addresses:
AMMA Data User Interface (France)
FTP site (France)
CDDIS | Data Sets (NASA, GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER).
National Geodetic Survey (USA)
NOTES
Receiver Independent Exchange Format (RINEX) is data interchange format for raw satellite navigation system data. This allows the user to post-process the received data to produce a more accurate solution - usually with other data unknown to the original receiver, such as better models of the atmospheric conditions at time of measurement.
The final output of a navigation receiver is usually its position, speed or other related physical quantities. However, the calculation of these quantities are based on a series of measurements from one or more satellite constellations. Although receivers calculate positions in real time, in many cases it is interesting to store intermediate measures for later use. RINEX is the standard format that allows the management and disposal of the measures generated by a receiver, as well as their off-line processing by a multitude of applications, whatever the manufacturer of both the receiver and the computer application.
The RINEX format is designed to evolve over time, adapting to new types of measurements and new satellite navigation systems. The most common version at present is 2.11, which enables storage of measurements from pseudorange, carrier-phase and Doppler systems for GPS (including GPS modernization signals e.g. L5 and L2C), GLONASS, Galileo, Beidou.
Read more about RINEX
2. African Meridian B-field Education and Research (AMBER)
Lead Scientists: Dr. Endawoke Yizengaw (Boston College) and Dr. Mark Moldwin (University of Michigan) United States
AMBER provides access to: (a) calibrated data (text files) and
(b) graphic data (30 Minute and 24 Hour Day Series, Half-Hour Dynamic Spectra and Day Spectra)
Access to the data is free.
Data are available online at the following Web addresses:
http://magnetometers.bc.edu/
If you want to use the data in a paper, book, or any other kind of electronic publication, please give appreciate credit to the "AMBER team" see notes
If you are refereeing acknowledgment, the AMBER team require for any publication using their data to include an appropriate acknowledgement, such as: "The authors thank E. Yizengaw, M. B. Moldwin and the rest of the AMBER team for the data. AMBER is operated by Boston College and funded by NASA and AFOSR"
The AMBER team also require to cite the following paper as reference for the description of AMBER network.
Yizengaw, E., and M. B. Moldwin (2009), African Meridian B-field Education and Research (AMBER) Array, Earth Moon Planet,104(1), 237-246, doi:10.1007/s11038-008-9287-2
3. Atmospheric Weather Education System for Observation and Modeling of Effects (AWESOME) and SID (Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance Monitor)
Lead Scientist: Dr. Umran S. Inan, Dr. Morris Cohen and Dr. Deborah Scherrer (Stanford) United States
AWESOME & SID provides access to raw data (in text-format) and Quick Looks in Real Time
Access to the data is free.
Data are available online at the following Web addresses:
http://sid.stanford.edu/database-browser/
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/SID/data/data-access.html
If you want to use the data in a paper, book, or any other kind of electronic publication, please give appreciate credit to the "Stanford SOLAR Center" and "Stanford University".
The webpage also includes direct links to the GOES satellite, SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory and SWPC Anonymous FTP Server (Indices, Events, and Region Data) that are monitoring solar activity.
A teacher’s guide for introducing the Sun and related information to the SID science is available at:
Solar-Center Stanford or here 
A complete installation manual plus instructions on how to understand SID data is available at:
Solar-Center Stanford or here
A research guide including information and examples of doing research with SID data is available at:
Solar-Center Stanford or here
What to do with your SID data see: Getting Started with SID Data by Shannon Lee
4. Boston University All-Sky Imaging Network (BU_ASI)
Lead Scientist: Dr Michael Mendillo and Dr. Carlos Martinis (Boston Uni) United States
BU_ASI Provides access to Movies & Images, organized in the following way:
Location; Year; Wavelength (in Angstroms) of filter through which we observe.
The wavelengths are links which take you to a calendar where you can choose a day to view gifs and an avi time-lapse movie
Access to the data is completely free for everybody.
Data are available online at the following Web address: http://sirius.bu.edu/dataview/
If you want to use the data in a paper, book, or any other kind of electronic publication, please give appreciate credit to the "Boston University All-Sky Imaging Network".
5. Compound Astronomical Low-cost Low-frequency Instrument for Spectroscopy and Transportable Observatory (CALLISTO)
Lead Scientist: Dipl. Ing. (FH) Christian Andreas Monstein (ETHZ) Switzerland
CALLISTO provides access to raw data (FIT-format) and Quick-look-images (Archives and in Real Time)
Access to the data is completely free for everybody.
Data are available online at the following Web addresses:
http://soleil.i4ds.ch/solarradio/data/2002-20yy_Callisto/ (Only FIT-files)
http://soleil.i4ds.ch/solarradio/callistoQuicklooks/ (FIT-files plus quick-look-images)
If you want to use the data in a paper, book, or any other kind of electronic publication, please give appreciate credit to the "Institute of Astronomy, ETH Zurich, and FHNW Brugg/Windisch, Switzerland".
FIT stand for 'Flexible Interchange Transport' which is a file standard in astronomy, see http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/
There are many tools to read and plot FIT or FITS like IDL, Mathematica, Matlab, Python, Java etc. , see here: http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_viewer.html
More information and data here: http://e-callisto.org
6. Continuous H-alpha Imaging Network (CHAIN)
Lead Scientist: Dr. Kazunari Shibata and Dr. Satoru UeNo (Kyoto U) Japan
CHAIN provides access to Real-time Images, Images and movies of Outstanding Events
Access to the data is free (but, partially offline yet).
Data are available online at the following Web addresses:
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/general/facilities/fmt/database_en.html (Data Archive)
http://www.hida.kyoto-u.ac.jp/SMART/T1.html (SMART Data Archive)
The use of data for public education efforts and non-commercial purposes is encouraged.
If you want to use the data in a paper, book, or any other kind of (electronic)
publication, please contact us.
E-mail: data_info@kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp
As for the offline data: contact to data_info[at]kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp
7. Coherent Ionospheric Doppler Receivers (CIDR)
Lead Scientist: Prof. Ayman Mahrous (Helwan University, Egypt) and Dr. Trevor W. Garner(U Tex) United States
CIDR will provide access to data
8. Global Muon Detector Network (GMDN)
Lead Scientist: Dr. Kazuoki Munakata (Shinsu U) Japan
GMDN provides access to Pressure corrected hourly muon count rate (decimal digital data) in each directional channel of the GMDN. Each file contains one year data from a station.
Access to the data is free.
Data are available online at the following Web address:
http://cosray.shinshu-u.ac.jp/crest/DB/Public/Archives/GMDN.php
If you want to use the data in a paper, book, or any other kind of publication, please read the header of each DATA file. To read generally applicable conditions for use of data, please read the
You are welcome to use Global µ-on Detector Network data of Shinshu University under the following conditions:
Physics Department, Faculty of Science,
Shinshu University
3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto
Nagano, 390-8621
JAPAN
1. You agree to send a copy of any paper using these data to:
2. You may share these data with colleagues, provided you inform them of these conditions. This is most simply accomplished by including the header information that came with the file when you got it.
3. While these data are accurate to our knowledge, we reserve the right to correct errors without notifying possible recipients of these data.
9. Magnetic Data Acquisition System (MAGDAS)
Lead Scientist: Dr. Kiyohumi Yumoto and Dr. Akimasa Yoshikawa (Kyushu U) Japan
MAGDAS provides access to raw data
Access to the data: is restricted (After request, MAGDAS team will explain the rules for getting data).
Data access: send a request using this email address datareq[at]serc.kyushu-u.ac.jp,
please put 'PI of the MAGDAS Project' in the Subject field
10. Optical Mesosphere Thermosphere Imager (OMTIs)
Lead Scientist: Dr. Kazuo Shiokawa (Nagoya U) Japan
OMTIs provides access to All-Sky images from all stations (Real Time and Archives)
Access to the data is free.
Data are available online at the following Web address:
http://stdb2.stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp/omti/index.html
If you want to use the data in a paper, book, or any other kind of publication, CONTACT the Principal Investigator Dr. Kazuo Shiokawa
Professor Kazuo Shiokawa, Dr. Yuichi Otsuka
Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University
Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
tel: +81-52-747-6419 fax: +81-52-747-6323
Data Plots of Canadian Stations
Data Plots of Chiang Mai (collaboration with NICT)
Data Plots of Kuehlungsborn/Andenes data (collaboration with NIPR and IAP)
Real Time Plot of All-Sky Image at Haleakara in Hawaii
11. Realistic Ionosphere (RI) 
Lead Scientists: Dr. Bodo Reinisch (LDI) and Dr. Ivan Galkin (UML) United States
RI provides expert- and guest-level access to raw and derived numerical and display products.
Expert-level: custom interactive data analysis tools with read-write access to RI databases.
Guest-level: web portals with online read-access to RI databases and computation processors.
Data Policy: Free access for academic use, with credits to provider and Rules of the Road.
License Type: Creative-Commons Attribution Non-commercial (CC BY-NC)
Data are available online at the following Web Addresses:
GIRO Open Data Portal: http://giro.uml.edu
Online Database Browsers: DIDBase,
DriftBase, and
FastChar
IRTAM 24-hour ionospheric weather nowcast: http://giro.uml.edu/IRTAM
GAMBIT: Home Page and
Coefficients Download
RayTRIX Front: OI-Synthesizer and
Skymap Raytracer
Expert software downloads: http://ulcar.uml.edu/downloads.html
12. Remote Equatorial Nighttime Observatory for Ionospheric Regions (RENOIR)
Lead Scientist: Dr. Jonathan J. Makela (U Illinois) United States
RENOIR provides access to plots of processed data. Upon request available archive of raw data
Access to the data is free.
Data access from the following Web address: http://airglow.csl.illinois.edu/Data/Calendar
The RENOIR team prefer that interested scientists contact and work with them if they are interested in the data as proper usage requires some background knowledge.
The RENOIR team is working on integrating the processed data files into the Madrigal database (http://madrigal.haystack.mit.edu/), but that is a few weeks/months away.
13. South America Very Low frequency Network (SAVNET)
Lead Scientist: Dr. Jean-Pierre Raulin (U Presbiteriana) Brazil
SAVNET provides access to daily FITS files.
There is one daily file per SAVNET base, i.-e. seven files each day.
Access to the data is NOT free.
Data access upon request, by sending an email to savnet[at]craam.mackenzie.br.
More about SAVNET data (click here)
What is a FITS file and why do you need special software to view one?Astronomers use a special file format for storing and sending astronomical data such as images and spectra. These are called Flexible Image Transport System or FITS files for short.
FITS files are more than just image files because at the start of every FITS file is a header section, which contains important information about the image, such as the number of pixels, the date the image was taken, the telescope it was taken with, the exposure time, and much more.
14. Scintillation Network Decision Aid (SCINDA)
Lead Scientist: Dr. Keith Groves (Hanscom AFRL) United States
SCINDA do NOT provide access to data.
15. Space Environment Viewing and Analysis Network (SEVAN)
Lead Scientist: Dr. Ashot Chilingarian (Aragats) Armenia
SEVAN provides access to raw and processed data, images (see SEVAN NOTES)
Access to the data is free.
Data are available online at the following Web address:
http://adei.crd.yerphi.am/adei/#__startup__
If you want to use the data in a paper, book, or any other kind of electronic
publication, please give appreciate credit to the "Cosmic ray Division of Yerevan Physics Institute ".
Data belongs to Cosmic ray Division of Yerevan Physics Institute
SEVAN provides access to
raw, and pressure corrected on-line and archived time series of various secondary cosmic ray fluxes on different altitudes latitudes and longitudes;
multivariate pictures;
means, variances, relative errors,
integrals, correlation plots, etc...
There are WIKI with explanations of particle detector design and field meter operation