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.
