ENLIL Solar Wind Prediction – Solar Orbiter

This site presents results from a research version of the heliospheric code ENLIL for the BepiColombo mission since its launch. The 3-D MHD computations were performed on a numerical grid with the 2-deg angular spacing and they used the WSA coronal maps and CME parameters calculated and fitted at NASA/CCMC. The stable ENLIL version is used by NOAA/SWPC and UK MetOffice for official space weather forecast and by NASA/CCMC for run-on-request support of the space weather community and for operational support of NASA heliospheric and other missions.

Heliospheric disturbances shown on two panels. Left panel shows the normalized solar wind density at the ecliptic plane together with the combined field of views (FOVs) of the Solar Orbiter detectors (dashed lines), elongations at 20, 40, and 60 deg (solid lines), and planetary positions. Right panel shows the running difference (2h cadence) of synthetic white-light total brightness images viewed from Solar Orbiter together with an approximate outline of the FOVs of its SoloHI detector shown by dashed lines, elongations at 20, 40, and 60 deg (solid lines), and planetary positions.