Abstract: The recent prolonged activity minimum has led to the question of whether there is a base level of the solar magnetic field evolution that yields a ”floor” in activity levels and also in the solar wind magnetic field strength. Recently, a flux transport model coupled with magneto-frictional simulations has been used to simulate the continuous magnetic field evolution in the global solar corona for over 15 years, from 1996 to 2012. Flux rope eruptions in the simulations are estimated (Yeates)…