Information about SMOKE - 27 June 2002

 The Sparse Matrix Operator Kernel Emission (SMOKE) model was developed by
 the Environmental Modeling Center at MCNC under cooperative research
 agreements and contracts with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
 
 The emission data for the tutorial of this release of CMAQ were prepared with
 SMOKE.
 
 SMOKE code is open source Fortran90 code, and is consistent with the netCDF
 I/O API convention used by CMAQ.
 
 SMOKE was recently updated to accept hourly and Continuing Emission Monitoring
 (CEM) data.
 
 Emission inventory data are accepted by SMOKE in the Inventory Data Analyzer
 (IDA) format (described in the SMOKE documentation). Speciation for selected
 gas phase lumped species mechanisms is included. Currently, lumping to
 accommodate the CB4 and RADM2 lumped species mechanisms is accomplished by
 SMOKE. Support for the SAPRC99 lumped species mechanism is planned. In the
 interim, the speciation files required to use SAPRC lumping in SMOKE can be
 obtained from the Atmospheric Modeling Division in EPA on request. SMOKE also
 speciates fine particulate emissions (PM 2.5) to six particulate categories to
 support the aerosol chemistry portions of CMAQ. Hourly biogenic and on-road
 mobile emission data are modeled directly using BEIS 3.09 and Mobile 5b,
 respectively, which are embedded in SMOKE. It is anticipated that Mobile 6
 will be in SMOKE soon. BEIS 3.09 in SMOKE will use either county level
 resolution or the 1 km resolution North American BELD land cover data.
 
 The most recently released version of SMOKE (version 1.4 beta) may be
 downloaded from the MCNC web site at
 
 http://www.emc.mcnc.org/products/smoke/
 
 A user manual, including file formats, a separate test case (not the tutorial
 with this CMAQ release), and other relevant links are available on the SMOKE
 page. Click on "Download EDSS and SMOKE" to access the SMOKE code and specific
 installation instructions for your system.