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

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Page 1: Carolina Environmental Program Status of SMOKE Catherine Seppanen Carolina Environmental Program University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Carolina Environmental Program

Status of SMOKEStatus of SMOKE

Catherine SeppanenCarolina Environmental Program

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Page 2: Carolina Environmental Program Status of SMOKE Catherine Seppanen Carolina Environmental Program University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Carolina Environmental Program

IntroductionIntroduction 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

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Release ScheduleRelease 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

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Carolina Environmental Program

SMOKE v2.1 HighlightsSMOKE v2.1 Highlights

Updates to SMOKE/MOBILE6 integration– Uses newest version MOBILE6.2.03– Extracts humidity and barometric

pressure data from gridded meteorology files

– Better temporal modeling of on-road emission processes

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SMOKE v2.1 HighlightsSMOKE 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

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Carolina Environmental Program

More on SMOKE v2.1More 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

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SMOKE v2.1 AvailabilitySMOKE v2.1 Availability

Download executables, scripts, and data through the CMAS Model Clearinghouse

http://www.cmascenter.org/html/models.html

User’s guide available online at the main SMOKE websitehttp://www.cep.unc.edu/empd/products/

smoke/

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Current WorkCurrent 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– http://emisview.sourceforge.net

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Carolina Environmental Program

Problems and Problems and QuestionsQuestions

Problems and questions can be submitted online through the CMAS Help Desk

http://www.cmascenter.org/html/help.html

Uses the Bugzilla bug tracking system

Searchable archive of current and resolved issues