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Status of SMOKE. Catherine Seppanen Carolina Environmental Program University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. History. Sparse Matrix Operator Kernel Emissions (SMOKE) Modeling System Processes emissions for input into air quality models Developed at MCNC by Marc Houyoux
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Status of SMOKE Catherine Seppanen Carolina Environmental Program University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Program
History • Sparse Matrix Operator Kernel Emissions (SMOKE) Modeling System • Processes emissions for input into air quality models • Developed at MCNC by Marc Houyoux • Now under active development at CEP • Funding primarily from EPA and through CMAS Carolina Environmental Program
Release Schedule • SMOKE v1.5 released in early 2003 • Several patches available during the summer • SMOKE v2.0 released on Sept. 30, 2003 • Planning to release SMOKE v2.1 in January 2004 Carolina Environmental Program
SMOKE v2.0 Highlights • Support for all toxic source categories • SMOKE v1.5 supported nonroad and on-road mobile sources • SMOKE v2.0 adds support for non-point and point sources • Processes additional fields from the NIF (MACT, NAICS, source type code, and emission release point type) Carolina Environmental Program
Toxics Support • New inventory format (ORL) for toxics data • Handles 8- and 10-digit SCCs within the same source category (non-point, nonroad, and point) • Revised controls to use MACT-based assignments • Can assign speciation profiles by MACT and SIC Carolina Environmental Program
More on SMOKE v2.0 • Updates to SMOKE/MOBILE6 integration • First released in SMOKE v1.5 • Travel on freeway ramps accounted for when estimating freeway emissions • New settings for treatment of freeway speeds • Support for hourly speed profiles • Revised plume rise calculations • Changed terminology from “ozone season” to more general “average day” Carolina Environmental Program
More on SMOKE v2.0 • Revised and expanded user’s guide • Had not been updated since SMOKE v1.4 • More introductory and conceptual material • Better explanations of directory structure and file locations • More detailed information on “nctox” release case • Updated for new programs, environment variables, and files Carolina Environmental Program
SMOKE v2.0 Availability • Download executables, scripts, and data through the CMAS Model Clearinghouse http://www.cmascenter.org/modelclear.shtml • User’s guide available online at the main SMOKE website http://www.cep.unc.edu/empd/products/smoke/ Carolina Environmental Program
Future Work • Additional quality assurance updates • Use humidity data from meteorology files when running SMOKE/MOBILE6 • Externally accessible code archive for better community collaboration • NIF-to-IDA converter Carolina Environmental Program
Problems and Questions • Problems and questions can be submitted online through the CMAS Help Desk http://www.cmascenter.org/help.shtml • Uses the Bugzilla bug tracking system • Searchable archive of current and resolved issues Carolina Environmental Program