Improving Weather Research and Forecast model (WRF) for California Carbon Emission Inventory Study

As part of the effort on cutting Californian carbon emission to 1999 level by 2020, we are building a regional carbon emission monitoring network combining various observations and inventory at both global and regional levels. The core for integrating all data sources is a regional atmosphere model. Since conventional GCMs are designed for emulating large scale event, we choose to improve WRF model with fine-tuned physics options for regional atmosphere dynamics. We show here our initial results on model improvements of capture small scale emission events at community level.