Challenges and Advances in Modeling of the Solar Atmosphere: A White Paper of Findings and Recommendations

TL;DR

This white paper reviews recent advances and outlines challenges in modeling the solar atmosphere, emphasizing the need for new data analysis and numerical approaches to interpret upcoming high-resolution observations.

Contribution

It summarizes recent numerical achievements in modeling the solar atmosphere and discusses future challenges for interpreting new observational data.

Findings

Recent numerical models successfully reproduce solar atmospheric structures.

Identification of key challenges in modeling complex solar phenomena.

Anticipation of future observational data requiring advanced analysis methods.

Abstract

The next decade will be an exciting period for solar astrophysics, as new ground- and space-based instrumentation will provide unprecedented observations of the solar atmosphere and heliosphere. The synergy between modeling effort and comprehensive analysis of observations is crucial for the understanding of the physical processes behind the observed phenomena. However, the unprecedented wealth of data on one hand, and the complexity of the physical phenomena on the other, require the development of new approaches in both data analysis and numerical modeling. In this white paper, we summarize recent numerical achievements to reproduce structure, dynamics, and observed phenomena from the photosphere to the low corona and outline challenges we expect to face for the interpretation of future observations.