MURI meeting notes March 3, 2004 (sketchy, biased, and with no graphics)

Motto: "H-alpha is the garbage heap of the solar atmosphere!"

Comment #1: If anybody reads these and finds errors, please let me know
at hhudson@ssl.berkeley.edu.

Comment #2: My notes are more complete in places where I am (a) not so
interested, but (b) not bored.

Fisher: discussion of programmatic things. [Comment: notes from here on
out may get a bit sketchy as the meeting breaks up into splinters and
shards]. A list inspired by yesterday's erasures follows:

I. Data-driven simulations
  - MHD modeling directly from the vmg data and our LCT work on
    8210 specifically.
  - AR8210 higher-res MHD simulation (UCB/UM) (LOS and VMG data)
  - AR 10486 photospheric-chromospheric VMG-driven MHD (WPS, TRM, KDL) 

II. Data-inspired simulations
  - Studies embedding ARS into large-scale simulations (ZM, JL)
  - 1 AU coronal/heliospheric simulations (DO, UCB, SAIC)
  - May 1997 event MHD simulation (IS, IR, YL, TF) 
  - May 1997 MHD simulation using IVM data (ZM, KDL, YL)

III. Technique development/testing
  - ILCT/MEF development (BW) -> investigate non-disk-center configurations
  - Put observed V_z into LCT (TRM)
  - NLFF code development (JM) (Spherical, connections to PFSS models)
  - NLFF models vs photospheric and chromospheric MGs (McT, TRM, KDL)
  - Faster LCT code, larger-scale FOV

IV. Other
  - MC fit for Halloween events IP data (RCC, YL)

Definitions of "data-driven" and "data-inspired" modeling - discussions. 
Where does "data assimilation" fit in? We are not ready for the latter
(GF).

DD: Use vector data to initialize and drive an MHD simulation.
DI: Use the data to parametrize initial conditions and flow geometry.

Comment (JL): Need some sensitivity to the flare/CME relationships during
this work.

Q: Can we understand flare/CME relationships better? A: Brief ordinary 
bickering about resistivity in MHD models. 

Comment (HSH) about RHESSI workshop work making use of McTiernan or 
other AR magnetic models for exploring non-thermal emissions. 

Q: How about legacy, other than the literature (JL)? A: shards and
splinters - HH