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