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.