6.10. Movesmrg

6.10.1. Description
6.10.2. Processing Order
6.10.3. Files and Environment Variables

6.10.1. Description

Processing categories: mobile

The Movesmrg is a new, mobile-sources-only program, loosely based on Smkmerge that combines the intermediate files produced by the other SMOKE programs (i.e., Grmdat, Spcmat, Temporal). Similar to Smkmerge, the main goal of Movesmrg is to create gridded, speciated, hourly air quality model-ready input files and county-level SCC summaries. The primary difference between Movesmrg and Smkmerge is that Movesmrg uses the MOVES emission rate lookup tables to compute emissions on the fly, by multiplying the emissions factors by hourly VMT (for RPD) or by monthly or annual vehicle populations (for RPV or RPP).