RADIO WAVES
From Observatories: RadioJove Archives
Live Data
RadioJove (web site)
A complete list of real-time data links is located in the Space Weather Resources section.
Often you will want to look at graphs of solar events that have occurred during previous days or months. Radio JOVE provides an archive. Below you will find instructions to get and interpret these graphs. When you visit the Radio JOVE Archive, you will see the Radio JOVE calendar below.
You can set the month and year as early as October of 1999 using the 'pull down" menus. The Sun icons on the calendar indicate that someone saved data of solar activity on that day. If you click on a day of solar activity, you will see a page of saved events.
Storm Type III usually indicates a solar flare, and a Strom Type II or IV usually indicate a CME. On May 29, 2003 (above) there were several records of such storms. The icons are defined in the upper part of the page. An Image File can be viewed without SkyPipe software. If you have loaded SkyPipe on your computer (not available for Mac computers unless you have virtual PC software), you can get SkyPipe graphs. A graph from the Image File is shown below.
There are three notable events from 1934 to 1936 UT. The rise in radio signal is much higher than background noise (the minor 'jitter' that you can see from 1937 to the end).
Some graphs show very sharp spikes that last only a second or so. These sharp spikes are from interference - sometimes lightening.
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