Carolina Environmental Program Status of SMOKE Catherine Seppanen Carolina Environmental Program University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Carolina Environmental Program Introduction  Processes emission inventories for input into air quality models  Handles criteria, particulate, and toxic pollutants  Basic functions: gridding, speciation, temporal allocation, plume rise  Used for regulatory and research activities

Carolina Environmental Program Release Schedule  SMOKE v2.0 released in fall of 2003  Major update –Toxics support for all source categories –Revised plume rise calculations  SMOKE v2.1 released on Sept. 30, 2004  Next release sometime in 2005

Carolina Environmental Program SMOKE v2.1 Highlights  Updates to SMOKE/MOBILE6 integration –Uses newest version MOBILE –Extracts humidity and barometric pressure data from gridded meteorology files –Better temporal modeling of on-road emission processes

Carolina Environmental Program SMOKE v2.1 Highlights  Updated BEIS3 model –Can use either BEIS3.09 or BEIS3.12  Supports polar stereographic grids  Allows users to change the spheroid type  Code improvements for better system compatibility

Carolina Environmental Program More on SMOKE v2.1  Finished conversion of SMOKE User’s Manual to DocBook format –XML-based format –Allows easy creation of HTML and PDF documents –Easier to update and maintain

Carolina Environmental Program SMOKE v2.1 Availability  Download executables, scripts, and data through the CMAS Model Clearinghouse  User’s guide available online at the main SMOKE website

Carolina Environmental Program Current Work  Updates for variable grid processing  New method for handling aircraft emissions  New QA Tool (EmisView) –Open source project, designed to work with both SMOKE and CONCEPT –

Carolina Environmental Program Problems and Questions  Problems and questions can be submitted online through the CMAS Help Desk  Uses the Bugzilla bug tracking system  Searchable archive of current and resolved issues