Possible SMOKE users are individuals who need to prepare emission input files for one of the following air quality models:
- Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system
- Multiscale Air Quality Simulation Platform (MAQSIP)
- Regulatory Modeling System for Aerosols and Deposition (REMSAD)
- Comprehensive Air Quality Model, with Extensions (CAMX)
- Urban Airshed Model, version 4 (UAM-IV)
- Urban Airshed Model, Variable grid (UAM-V)
We anticipate that the typical SMOKE user will have some combination of the following experience and needs:
- Those knowledgeable about emission inventories.
- Those with UNIX experience (including Linux).
- Those with little or no emissions modeling background.
- Those who are somewhat familiar with grid-based air quality models and their emissions input needs.
- Persons with emission inventories in hand who need to process the data for input to an AQM.
- EPA personnel who want to create emission inputs for research or regulatory efforts with AQMs.
- State environmental personnel who want to create emission inputs to AQMs for regulatory efforts, including State Implementation
Plans (SIPs).
- Those wishing to generate an on-road mobile inventory using MOVES and either the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) modeling
system or the Pennsylvania State University/National Center for Atmospheric Research fifth-generation Mesoscale Model (MM5)
gridded, hourly meteorology data.
SMOKE users who have previous UNIX experience can expect to run SMOKE more easily than users who must learn both UNIX and
SMOKE. This is because the standard way to run SMOKE is from UNIX scripts.