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First Name: Diego
Last Name: Lloveras
Affiliation: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center & George Mason University
All Authors: D.G. Lloveras, L.A. Balmaceda, A.M. Vásquez, F.A. Nuevo, E. Samara, C.N. Arge
Abstract: Accurate forecasting of the solar wind has become increasingly important as society becomes increasingly dependent on technology susceptible to space weather events. The Wang-Sheeley-Arge (WSA) model is a semi-empirical solar coronal and solar wind model that serves as a critical bridge between photospheric observations and heliospheric space weather forecasting. The WSA model has achieved widespread popularity and operational status within the solar and space weather communities primarily due to its computational efficiency and robustness. Independently, the three-dimensional (3D) distribution of the coronal electron density can be determined from sequences of coronograph observations using the solar rotational tomography (SRT) technique. In this work, we examine the consistency between solar wind velocities from the WSA model and the 3D electron plasma density reconstructed with SRT from coronal images taken by Metis onboard ESA/NASA's Solar Orbiter.