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LISIRD: An Online Resource for Making Solar Data More Accessible
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  • Hunter Leise,
  • Tom Baltzer,
  • Anne Wilson,
  • Douglas Lindholm,
  • Martin Snow,
  • Donald Woodraska,
  • Stephane Beland,
  • Odele Coddington,
  • Christopher Pankratz
Hunter Leise
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

Corresponding Author:hunter.leise@lasp.colorado.edu

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Tom Baltzer
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
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Anne Wilson
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
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Douglas Lindholm
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
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Martin Snow
University of Colorado Boulder
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Donald Woodraska
Univ Colorado
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Stephane Beland
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
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Odele Coddington
CU in Boulder--LASP
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Christopher Pankratz
University of Colorado
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Abstract

Finding quality solar data can be difficult, if not cumbersome at best, especially for students and early career researchers. The trend of having static files in an obscure format served in a hidden directory on some seemingly random server certainly doesn’t help the situation, not to mention the datasets that are only accessible via a researcher’s hard drive. The LASP Interactive Solar IRradiance Datacenter (LISIRD), lasp.colorado.edu/lisird, seeks to alleviate many of these pains. LISIRD is a website where students and researchers can discover, visualize, and download solar data from a variety of space missions, instruments, models, and laboratories. LISIRD focuses on making heliophysics research as effortless as possible by making solar data openly available and easy to analyze through an intuitive user interface, detailed metadata, interactive plotting capabilities, and a catalog of over 75 datasets. This poster will demonstrate the key features of LISIRD, provide details on the datasets it serves, outline future plans for improvement and growth, and discuss how it can be used as a valuable resource in space physics curricula.