DURING THE PAST FIVE YEARS RESEARCHERS AT UC BERKELEY STANFORD UNIVERSITY AND LOCKHEED MARTIN HAVE BUILT A TIME-EVOLVING MODEL (THE CORONAL GLOBAL EVOLUTIONARY MODEL ALSO KNOWN AS CGEM) OF MAGNETIC FIELDS IN THE SOLAR CORONA DRIVEN BY VECTOR MAGNETOGRAM AND DOPPLER DATA TAKEN WITH THE HMI INSTRUMENT ON NASA'S SDO MISSION. THIS IS A PROPOSAL FOR A ONE-YEAR EFFORT TO EXTEND THE CAPABILITIES OF THE CGEM MODEL. THE PROPOSAL PLANS TO ENHANCE THE USER INTERFACES TO CGEM IMPROVE THE MODEL'S ROBUSTNESS AND IMPROVE OUR SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE SUN'S CORONA BY ANALYZING THE OUTPUT OF THE CGEM MODEL AND COMPARING THE RESULTS WITH OBSERVATION.
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