The last task for the spatial allocation processing is creating the gridding intermediate files. The Grdmat program creates a gridding matrix (AGMAT
, MGMAT
, or PGMAT
) and for on-road mobile sources an ungridding matrix (MUMAT
). These matrices contain all of the factors needed to calculate gridded emissions from a source-based inventory. In addition,
the Grdmat program writes a supplementary output file (AGSUP
or MGSUP
) that contains the spatial surrogates assigned for each source, indicates whether the assignment was a primary or a fallback,
and identifies area-to-point sources. The structures of the SMOKE intermediate files output by Grdmat are provided in Section 7.4, “Grdmat”.