Nature Communications (May 2016)

Data-driven magnetohydrodynamic modelling of a flux-emerging active region leading to solar eruption

  • Chaowei Jiang,
  • S. T. Wu,
  • Xuesheng Feng,
  • Qiang Hu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11522
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Solar eruptions heavily influence space weather, but what are their causes remains an open question. Here the authors present a magnetohydrodynamic model of a solar eruption directly driven by solar magnetograms, following the transition from pre-eruptive to eruptive state.