  In a previous study, Huang et al. (2023) used the Alfven Wave Solar
atmosphere Model (AWSoM), one of the widely used solar wind models in the
community, driven by ADAPT-GONG magnetograms to simulate the solar wind in the
last solar cycle and found that the optimal Poynting flux parameter can be
estimated from either the open field area or the average unsigned radial
component of the magnetic field in the open field regions. It was also found
that the average energy deposition rate (Poynting flux) in the open field
regions is approximately constant. In the current study, we expand the previous
work by using GONG magnetograms to simulate the solar wind for the same
Carrington rotations and determine if the results are similar to the ones
obtained with ADAPT-GONG magnetograms. Our results indicate that similar
correlations can be obtained from the GONG maps. Moreover, we report that
ADAPT-GONG magnetograms can consistently provide better comparisons with 1 AU
solar wind observations than GONG magnetograms, based on the best simulations
selected by the minimum of the average curve distance for the solar wind speed
and density.
