SMOKE v2.5 Release Notes

SMOKE 2.5 Updates | Changes by Program | Scripts and Assigns Files

BEIS3 | Elevpoint | Mrggrid | Spcmat | Smkreport

• BEIS 3.14 includes the sesquiterpene emission factors in NORMBEIS3 and the estimation of sesquiterpene emissions in TMPBEIS3 including 34 species/compounds based upon BEIS3.13.
• Cntlmat supports PlantID/MACT code projections and controlds.
• Elevpoint has an option to prevent latitude and longitude information writing to the Stack Parameter Group file.
• Laypoint requires the new PLUME_GTEMP_NAME: [default: TEMP2] to set a ground temperature variable name from the meteorology file for plume rise calcuation due to the recent changes of MCIP 3.0 output variables.
• Smkmerge supports more than 120 variables.
• Smkreport creates a report including elevated status and stack group ID together using "BY ELEVSTAT STACKGROUP".
• Smkreport creates a report by ORIS ID code using "BY ORIS [NAME]". NAME can be an option to append additional outputs of the ORIS ID code descriptions instead of only the ORIS ID code.
• SMOKE supports fixed and delimited formats of SCC and SIC description files.
• SMOKE supports in-line plume rise calculation in CMAQ version 4.7 to reduce the size of "traditional" 3-D model-ready input file generated by off-line plume rise calculation in SMOKE.
• Spcmat can apply weighted mutiple speciation profiles for different fuels in the same county and SCC.
• Spcmat can handle more than 120 species per pollutants.

• BEIS 3.14 includes the sesquiterpene emission factors in NORMBEIS3 and the estimation of sesquiterpene emissions in TMPBEIS3 including 34 species/compounds based upon BEIS3.13. The algorithm for sesquiterpenes is similar to monoterpenes except for the factor in the exponent for temperature adjustment. For monoterpene, the factor is 0.09 compared to 0.17 for sesquiterpene.

• ELEV_WRITE_LATLON: [default: Y]

Defines whether to write the latitude and longitude information of special elevated or PinG sources to the stack groups file Section 9.3.2, “STACK_GROUPS” for air quality models CMAQ, MAQSIP, and UAM-style:

o Y: Write the latitude and longitude information of elevated or PinG sources to the the stack group file.

o N: Do not write the latitude and longitude information of elevated or PinG sources to the the stack group file.

The ELEV_WRITE_LATLON can not be N, when processing for PinG sources, since CMAQ does need the latitude and longitude to be included.

• This program not only applies adjustment factor to the emissions over the grid cells after SMOKE has already created model-ready inputs using the adjustment factor (ADJ_FACS) file, but also appends a tag to the species from a logical file using the tag species (TAG_SPECIES) file:

• ADJ_FACS: Contains the species name, the logical file name, and the factor to be applied to all grid cells

• TAG_SPECIES: Contains the logical file name, the species name, and the tag to be appended

• When the special keyword “COMBO” is used as a speciation profile code in the GSREF file, all sources matching the cross-reference entry should use a combination speciation profile. The combination speciation profiles file (GSPRO_COMBO) contains a combination of multiple speciation profiles that combine multiple speciation profiles with a weight for each profile to support a mixture of fuel profiles to specific counties, when users have information to provide about market penetration of each fuel and have speciation profiles for each of these fuels available.

• GSPRO_COMBO : a combination of multiple speciation profiles that combine multiple speciation profiles with a weight for each profile to support a mixture of fuel profiles to specific counties. See more detail at Chapter 8.5.3 in SMOKE manual.

• BY ELEVSTAT STACKGROUP: Records include the status of sources as elevated (E), plume-in-grid (P), and low-level (L). All elevated statuses could appear in the same report, depending on the inventory and elevated source selection criteria. STACKGROUP can be appended to the option to additionally output stack group number from PELV file. This instruction can be used for point sources only.

• BY ORIS [NAME]: Records are printed by ORIS ID code. NAME can be appended to the option to additional output the ORIS ID code description (from the ORISDESC file) instead of only the ORIS ID code.

• Updates to the default run script file (smk_pt_nctox.csh) to include a new PLUME_GTEMP_NAME: [default: TEMP2].