This repository contains notes and documents related to my atmospheric modeling postdoctoral work at UC Berkeley.
02/2012-02/2014 Postdoctoral Scholar-Employee, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, California (CA)
Supervisor: Dr. Inez Fung, Professor of Atmospheric Science; Contributor to the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC)
• Carried out research focused on mesoscale and regional (forward or“bottom-up”) atmospheric transport modeling and analysis of anthropogenic and biogenic carbon dioxide emissions from northern California for multi-scale estimation and quantification of atmospheric CO2 concentrations.
• Made extensive use of WRF (written mostly in FORTRAN), the WRF-Chem coupled weather-air quality model for atmospheric transport simulations, and the Vegetation Photosynthesis and Respiration Model (WRF-VPRM) biospheric model to simulate CO2 biosphere fluxes and atmospheric CO2 concentrations. This work also involved the use of the R statistical scripting language, the NCAR Command Language (NCL), MATLAB, Python, and Ferret for additional pre- and post-processing, modification, and visualization of netCDF files, and further enabling and expediting data analysis of simulation results.
• Troubleshooted WRF, WRF-Chem, and VPRM simulation runs and results to increase data efficiency and to decrease time to solve problems.
• Installed, compiled, built, and configured WRF, WRF-Chem, and VPRM on the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) multi-core supercomputing system “Hopper” and submitted batch job scripts to this system to run the WRF model simulations.
• Assisted students and post-docs in installing and configuring WRF and WRF-Chem.