MPAS run to see transport of methane emission

[sudz]

Can we do the MPAS run to see the transport of methane emissions in the global or regional domain?

 

[Ming Chen]

If methane is treated as a passive tracer ( i.e., only consider its emission and transport without any chemical reaction processes), then both global and regional MPAS can simulate its transport. Please see the document here for more details.

 

[sudz]

Can I use any methane data as input other than GFS data and see the transport with the passive tracer method for any region and global simulation?

 

[sudz]

If methane is treated as a passive tracer ( i.e., only consider its emission and transport without any chemical reaction processes), then both global and regional MPAS can simulate its transport. Please see the document here for more details.

But how i can initiate input data into the model?

 

[Ming Chen]

@sudz

Please look at the document https://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/projects/mpas/tutorial/Virtual2023/lectures/Passive_tracers.pdf, in which the slides 3-6 describes how to initialize tracer in MPAS.