Our models are
compared to a suite of observational data for thermal and scattered light
emission, ranging from the ALMA radial surface brightness
profile at 1.3 mm to polarisation measurements in the visible.
We
compare aircraft observations to modeled CH4 distributions by accounting for a) transport using the Stochastic Time - Inverted Lagrangian Transport (STILT) model driven by Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) meteorology, b)
emissions from inventories such as EDGAR and ones constructed from California - specific state and county databases, each gridded to 0.1 ° x 0.1 ° resolution, and c) spatially and temporally evolving boundary conditions such as GEOS - Chem and a NOAA aircraft
profile measurement derived curtain imposed at the edge of the WRF domain.