Improving Understanding and Assessment of the Ambient Solar Wind
An important objective is to develop, implement, and optimize numerical models for specifying the large-scale properties of the solar wind at the inner boundary of heliospheric codes. In this talk, I will present a new prediction system that fuses in situ measurements into numerical models to better match solar wind solutions with the prevailing conditions at Earth. I will demonstrate that the proposed prediction system improves several solar wind models by up to twenty percent in terms of established measures. I will discuss why this is the case, and demonstrate that our findings have important implications for future practice in space weather research and prediction.