Enabling Critical Solar Wind Research via Consistent, Comprehensive Inner Heliosphere Data Coverage
Whitepaper #271 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: space weather applications; basic research. Additional topics: space weather research/applications/operations pipeline; inner heliosphere; system science.
by E. I. Mason, Y. J. Rivera, B. L. Alterman, S. A. Spitzer, A. K. Higginson, T. Y. Chen, J. E. Kooi, and C. R. Gilly
Published onJul 31, 2023
Enabling Critical Solar Wind Research via Consistent, Comprehensive Inner Heliosphere Data Coverage
Solar wind creation and early evolution is fundamental to Heliophysics. Advances require reliably tracking individual packets of solar wind from the low corona to 1 AU. We need 360°, high-resolution, high-cadence coronal and solar wind measurements. These are bottom-line requirements to advance basic research, space weather modeling, and operational forecasting.
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