P17 Recent advances in WRF-Chem/DART - a real time regional chemical weather forecast/ensemble Kalman filter data assimilation system

Mizzi, Arthur P., David P. Edwards, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)/Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, and Jeffrey L. Anderson, NCAR/Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences

WRF-Chem/DART is a real time regional chemical weather forecast/ensemble Kalman filter data assimilation system that combines the Weather Research and Forecast Model (WRF) with online chemistry (WRF-Chem) with the Data Assimilation Research Test (DART). This poster will present some of the recent advances and applications of WRF-Chem/DART including: (i) The availability of WRF-Chem/DART through the DART download, (ii) Application of WRF-Chem/DART through its real time scripting system and options, (iii) Emissions adjustment and assimilation of trace gas surface observations, (iv) Met/Chem multivariate data assimilation, and (v) Application of WRF-Chem/DART to FRAPPE, PANDA, and KORUS.