• IHY 50-Page Program Booklet
  A 50-page publication titled "Putting the 'I' in the IHY" is now available. This booklet is a comprehensive overview of the worldwide organization and current planning activities of IHY.
  
  Download PDF File (4.8 MB) Sorry, only English is available at this point!
  Please contact Hans HAUBOLD if you would like to obtain the printed publication.

• Printed Materials and Reports from the IHY/United Nations Basic Space Science Observatory Development Program
  

• Resolution on IHY Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly
  The U.N. General Assembly adopted the following resolution on 6 January 2006, supporting the IHY Workplan and endorsing the participation of the U.N. and its member states.
  
  Arabic, PDF File Format (224 KB)   Chinese, PDF File Format (316 KB)
  English, PDF File Format (149 KB)   French, PDF File Format (153 KB)
  Russian, PDF File Format (241 KB)   Spanish, PDF File Format (154 KB)

• Report on the 2006 United Nations/ESA/NASA Workshop on IHY
  A publication describing the presentation, participants, instrumentation, and recommendations from the 2006 UN/ESA/NASA Workshop on IHY, held in Bangalore, India.
  
  Arabic, 697 kB PDF
  Chinese, 809 kB PDF
  English, 600 kB PDF
  French, 216 kB PDF
  Russian, 953 kB PDF
  Spanish, 108 kB PDF
  

• Report on the 2005 United Nations/ESA/NASA Workshop on IHY
  A publication describing the presentation, participants, instrumentation, and recommendations from the 2005 UN/ESA/NASA Workshop on IHY, held in Abu-Dhabi and Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates 20-23 November 2005.
  
  English Black & White Version, PDF File Format (1.2 MB)
  English Full Color Version, PDF File Format (3.4 MB)
  English Full Color Version, Microsoft Word File Format (4.1 MB)
  Russian Full Color Version, PDF File Format (647 kB)
  

• The IHY Balkan and Black Sea Region Website contains a detailed meeting summary and abstracts and presentations from the participants from the IHY Regional Meeting held 6-8 June, 2005.

• 2007: International Heliophysical Year
  by Richard Harrison, Andrew Breen, Barbara Bromage and Joe Davila
  A & G, June 2005, Vol 46

• International Heliophysical Year U.N. Basic Space Science Workshops
  By Hans Haubold and Barbara Thompson
  The EGGS: Newsletter & Information Service of the EGU
  3 April 2005

• Total Eclipse Cooperation: An article on IHY international efforts during the total solar eclipse of 2006 published in eJournal USA of the U.S. Department of State.
  By Joseph Davila
  October 2006

• What is the International Heliophysical Year?
  By Nancy Crooker
  Eos Trans. of the AGU, 85(37)
  14 September 2004

• IHY Update for the International Astronomical Union
  prepared by David F. Webb, published in the IAU Info Bulletin 101, January 2008.

• Plasma Physics of the Local Cosmos
  By the Space Studies Board of the U.S. National Academy of Science
  A definitive publication for IHY's "Universal Processes" and interconnected heliophysical science. 2004.

• Space Weather Research to Benefit From IGY Anniversary
  By Sarah Simpson
  Space Weather, Vol. 2, No. 7
  28 July 2004

• Scientists to plan International Heliophysical Year
  Spaceref.com
  14 April 2004

• IHY: A Program of Global Research Continuing the Tradition of Previous International Years
  By J.M. Davila, A.I. Poland & R.A. Harrison
  15 Feb 2001

• "Making space law relevant to basic space science in the commercial space age" , by Sriram Swaminathan
  November, 2005

IHY Posters:
IHY Posters specially designed by J. Rumburg representing the IHY science activities:

IHY Heliosphere Poster (518 kB)

IHY Magnetic Variability Poster (670 kB)

IHY Planetary Environment Poster (971 kB)

IHY Solar System Aeronomy Poster (1.1 MB)

IHY Brochure (2006 Version):

Arabic version Low-resolution PDF High-resolution PDF (1.1 MB)	Armenian version High-resolution PDF (2.5 MB)	Chinese version Low-resolution PDF High-resolution PDF (4.1 MB)	English version Low-resolution PDF High-resolution PDF (2.6 MB)	French version Low-resolution PDF High-resolution PDF (2.6 MB)
Russian version Low-resolution PDF High-resolution PDF (11.5 MB)	Spanish version Low-resolution PDF High-resolution PDF (2.6 MB)	Portuguese version High-resolution PDF (2.3 MB)	Italian version High-resolution PDF (2.1 MB)	Japanese version High-resolution PDF (3.2 MB)

2006 Eclipse Posters: These high-resolution eclipse posters can be downloaded and printed on any large format printer. The poster is available in: English, Spanish, French, and Arabic. If you would like to volunteer to translate the text into a language that is not yet available, please contact Emilie Drobnes at emilie@ihy.gsfc.nasa.gov.

ENGLISH 22in x 34in Download (64.3 MB)

SPANISH 22in x 34in Download (64.3 MB)

FRENCH 22in x 34in Download (64.2 MB)

ARABIC 22in x 34in Download (64.3 MB)

• IHY Brochure (2004 Version) PDF (2.5 MB)
• IHY Newsletter HTML
• IHY Poster: Fall 2002 PDF (1.3 MB)
• Space Weather CD ROM - explore the connection between the Sun, the Earth, and our heliophysical environment! Click here to receive a copy of the CD ROM (English, French and German versions available)
• Solar wind - an IHY 6-minute movie in English and Spanish: wmv (46 MB) and mpg (62 MB) - Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), Spain.

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Science Resources

For the websites of the national programs, please go to the IHY International Coordination page.
• The Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) runs models and provides resources for the heliophysics community. The sites includes an online interface to request simulations of a wide range of heliophysical processes, with display tools for users to examine the results. This resource is free and can provide valuable support to all IHY CIPs and science activities.
• COST296 Action IHY Program
• Comparative Aeronomy in the Solar System Website, Info and Discussion Group:
  An exciting approach to cross-cutting IHY science!
• IAU working Group on IHY (IHYWG)
• IHY Summer Schools
• IHY-Europe Job Positions Page COST 296 IHY Resources

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International Science Years

International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-8

• IPY
• IPY - US

Electronic Geophysical Year (eGY) 2007-8

• eGY

International Year of Planet Earth 2005-7

• IYPE

World Year of Physics 2005

• Home Page

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Participating Observatories

There are nearly 200 observatories in the Science Coordination Database.

• Current list of observatories
• Current list of observatories with minimal graphics (low bandwidth version)

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IHY-Related Images

Including the IHY logo in several languages, and images and diagrams of key people, missions and phenomena in heliophysics.
• IHY Images Page

If you would like to submit a resource, please email it to the IHY webmaster.