Global solar research models and data must be open, verifiable, and quickly accessible.

Halo CME @halocme  These supra-arcade downflows (SAD) (including tadpoles) tend to follow a very big eruption as we see them here. twitter.com/TrestanSimon/s…
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Trestan Simon @TrestanSimon
The eruption associated with today’s X-class solar flare was also associated with supra-arcade downflows, dark tadpole-shaped features that sometimes appear descending above flare arcades. (Footage courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA science team.)
https://twitter.com/halocme/status/1688693353469431810?s=20 https://pic.twitter.com/NTGhwNoluX

@TrestanSimon Always link to your source data. Pretty pictures are not science unless others can check context, raw data, steps. Global solar research models and data must be open, verifiable, and quickly accessible. All fields, all data. Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation.

@TrestanSimon Always link to your source data. Pretty pictures are not science unless others can check context, raw data, steps. Global solar research models and data must be open, verifiable, and quickly accessible. All models, all data. Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation.

There are only a few ten thousand people working on solar data, but there are hundreds of thousands who try to use it, millions who are interested and billions affected.  The barriers are easy to spot – no link, no access, no documentation, back writing, broken links, incomplete descriptions, lossy formats, NO open source for processing, no access to formats.  Proprietary hardware and software – when much of this data is justified as “for all people”, “for the good of the human species”.