Impact of Inner Heliospheric Boundary Conditions on Solar Wind Predictions at Earth (2020)
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Gonzi, S., Weinzierl, M., Bocquet, F., Bisi, M., Odstrcil, D., Jackson, B., …Nikolos Arge, C. (2021). Impact of Inner Heliospheric Boundary Conditions on Solar Wind Predictions at Earth. Space Weather, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1029/2020sw002499

Predictions of the physical parameters of the solar wind at Earth are at the core of operational space weather forecasts. Such predictions typically use line-of-sight observations of the photospheric magnetic field to drive a heliospheric model. The... Read More about Impact of Inner Heliospheric Boundary Conditions on Solar Wind Predictions at Earth.

The Possible Impact of L5 Magnetograms on Non-Potential Solar Coronal Magnetic Field Simulations (2016)
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Weinzierl, M., Mackay, D. H., Yeates, A. R., & Pevtsov, A. A. (2016). The Possible Impact of L5 Magnetograms on Non-Potential Solar Coronal Magnetic Field Simulations. Astrophysical Journal, 828(2), Article 102. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/828/2/102

The proposed Carrington-L5 mission would bring instruments to the L5 Lagrange point to provide us with crucial data for space weather prediction. To assess the importance of including a magnetograph, we consider the possible differences in non-potent... Read More about The Possible Impact of L5 Magnetograms on Non-Potential Solar Coronal Magnetic Field Simulations.

A New Technique for the Photospheric Driving of Non-Potential Solar Coronal Magnetic Field Simulations (2016)
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Weinzierl, M., Yeates, A. R., Mackay, D. H., Henney, C. J., & Arge, C. N. (2016). A New Technique for the Photospheric Driving of Non-Potential Solar Coronal Magnetic Field Simulations. Astrophysical Journal, 823(1), Article 55. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/823/1/55

In this paper, we develop a new technique for driving global non-potential simulations of the Sun's coronal magnetic field solely from sequences of radial magnetic maps of the solar photosphere. A primary challenge to driving such global simulations... Read More about A New Technique for the Photospheric Driving of Non-Potential Solar Coronal Magnetic Field Simulations.