A 3D picture of the coronal magnetic field remains an outstanding
problem in solar physics, particularly in active regions. Nonlinear
force-free field reconstructions that employ routinely available
full-disk photospheric vector magnetograms represent state-of-the-art
coronal magnetic field modeling. Such reconstructions, however, suffer
from an inconsistency between a force-free coronal magnetic field and a
non-force-free photospheric boundary condition, from which the coronal
reconstruction is performed. In this study we focus on integrating the
additional chromospheric and/or coronal magnetic field data with the
vector photospheric magnetograms with the goal of improving the
reliability of the magnetic field reconstructions. We develop a
corresponding modification of the available optimization codes described
in Fleishman et al. and test their performance using a full-fledged
magnetohydrodynamics model obtained from the Bifrost code by performing
a “voxel-by-voxel” comparison between the reconstructed and
the model magnetic fields. We demonstrate that adding even an incomplete
set of chromospheric magnetic field data can measurably improve the
reconstruction of the coronal magnetic field and greatly improve
reconstructions of the magnetic connectivity and of the coronal electric
current.