Information about SMOKE - 30 September 2004

 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).  Development of
 SMOKE continues at UNC-CEP and is partially supported by CMAS.

 The emissionS 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.

 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, RADM2, SAPRC99 lumped species mechanisms is accomplished 
 by SMOKE.  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 3.12 and Mobile 6, respectively, which are embedded in SMOKE.

 The most recently released version of SMOKE (version 2.1) may be downloaded
 from the CMAS web site at

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

 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 SMOKE" to access the SMOKE code and specific
 installation instructions for your system.