SMOKE Enhancements

SMOKE version 5.0 (June 2023)
Movesmrg Enhancements

New feature to generate the temperature-bin-specific pregridded hourly emissions for Mrggrid to efficiently generate CMAQ-ready gridded hourly emissions
- OUTPUT_EMIS_TABLE_YN [default: N]
  : Define whether output temperature-bin precomputed gridded hourly emissions tables or not (Not applicable for RPP mode). Find the details on how the temperature-bin-specific pregridded hourly emissions approach can work for your modeling runs [CMAQ-MetEmis Dynanic Coupler Development Document].
  : MCIP meteorology inputs are not required. CMAQ-ready gridded hourly emissions can be computed by Mrggrid using the MCIP gridded temperature at 2 meters.
- MIN_TEMP_EMIS_TABLE [default: 0.0]
  : Define the lowest temperature for precomputed emissions table output file when OUTPUT_EMIS_TABLE_YN is set to Y.
- MAX_TEMP_EMIS_TABLE [default: 120.0]
  : Define the highest temperature for precomputed emissions table output file when OUTPUT_EMIS_TABLE_YN is set to Y.
- TEMP_INCREMENT_EMIS_TABLE [default: 5.0]
  : Define the temperature bin increment for precomputed emissions table output file when OUTPUT_EMIS_TABLE_YN is set to Y.
USE_MOVES4_NOX_ADJ_EQS [default: N]
: Use the MOVES4 NOx humidity correction equation or not

Mrggrid Enhancements

Generate the CMAQ-ready gridded hourly emissions for MOVES onroad mobile sources except for RPP mode. This feature can be enabled when the column B in the Mrggrid FILELIST input file is defined as "METEMIS". Optionally, the column C can be enabled to apply NOx humidity correction of MOVES mobile emissions by fuel type ("GASOLINE" or "DIESEL").

Gentpro Enhancements

Generate county-level [average|sum] meteorology inputs for the Farm Emissions Model (FEM)
- AVG_RAW_OUTPUT_YN [default: N]
  : Define whether Gentrpo outputs average raw meteorology variables (temperature; wind speed; etc) or not
- SUM_RAW_OUTPUT_YN [default: N]
  : Define whether Gentrpo outputs total raw meteorology variables (e.g., precipitation) or not
New feature to generate daily and monthly temporal profiles for recreational RWC SCCs based on the weekly temporal profile
- RECREATIONAL_RWC_TPRO_YN [default: N]
  : Define whether Gentrpo generates recreational RWC temporal profiles or not
- LOW_RWC_TEMP_THRESHOLD [default: 50.0]
  : Define the lower-end ambient temperature threshold value that can occur recreational RWC emissions from the inventory sources (recreational wood burning; firepits, chimineas, etc.)
- HIGH_RWC_TEMP_THRESHOLD [default: 80.0]
  : Define the higher-end ambient temperature threshold value that can occur recreational RWC emissions from the inventory sources (recreational wood burning; firepits, chimineas, etc.)
- Updated county-level temperature threshold (low and high) input file [RWC_COUNTY_TEMP]
  : Added an additional column (3rd column) for county-level higher-end temperature thresholds for RWC-related inventory sources.
New prefix flag for temporal profile IDs using setting PREFIX_TPRO (up to 3 characters)

Various Updates

Normbeis4

Add optional check of landuse sums controlled by setting CHECK_LUSE
Add checks for units in landuse and biomass files

Smkinven

Updated to support new processing flow for CEMS data
New hourly activity (HOURACT) variable added to the CEMS data for hourly temporal allocation of CEMS inventory sources

Smkmerge

Use BTU/hr as output units for HFLUX

Smkreport

Add new BY UNIT report option

Temporal

Updated the temporal assignment hierarchy to allow for partial FIPS matches when SCC is blank or null without setting the FULLSCC_ONLY flag to TRUE

SMOKE version 4.9 (June 2022)

Elevpoint

Fixed error that caused uniform stack flow (STKFLW) values to be output to the STACK_GROUPS file

Gentpro

Fixed output of county codes in NetCDF files

Movesmrg

Humidity adjustments are now applied to additional pollutants HONO_INV, NO_INV, and NO2_INV
Fixed error that caused incorrect outputs when using subsector grouping (SMK_SUB_SECTOR_OUTPUT_YN) with empty subsectors

Normbeis3

Corrected land use names when using BEIS3.7
Updated definition of MODIS_14 (Cropland/Natural Vegetation Mosaic)

Normbeis4 / Tmpbeis4

New programs to support using BEIS4 emissions factors and BELD6 land use data

Smkmerge

Fixed error that caused incorrect outputs when using subsector grouping (SMK_SUB_SECTOR_OUTPUT_YN) with empty subsectors

Smkreport

Column headers in point source reports now match Flat File 2010 terminology (Facility ID, Unit ID, Rel Point ID, Process ID)
New "BY FACILITY" option in the REPCONFIG file replicates the existing "BY PLANT" instruction
New "BY BOILER" REPCONFIG option summarizes emissions by ORIS Boiler ID
Fixed issue when using the AERMOD instruction so that coordinate system transformations use the IOAPI_ISPH environment variable

Temporal

Corrected profile ID in error message about a missing Sunday hour-of-day profile

SMOKE version 4.8.1 (January 2021)

Spcmat Updates

USE_REF_COUNTY_MAP_YN [default:N]: New feature to assign speciation profiles by reference county based on the inventory-reference county cross-reference input file (MCXREF).

Smkmerge and Movesmrg Updates

SMK_SUB_SECTOR_OUTPUT_YN [default:N]: Generate sub-sector source group emissions output files based on the list of source group ID defined in (SOURCE_GROUPS).

Smkreport Updates

Updated "BY SPCCODE" summary report to output associated model species along with a targeted inventory pollutant.

SMOKE version 4.8 (October 2020)

New MOVES RatePerStart (RPS) Mode

New feature in Movesmrg for users to model Off-Network Start Exhaust and Crankcase Start Exhaust processes that are currently modeled under RatePerVehicle (RPV) mode.
Unit of RPS emission rate is mass per vehicle-engine start (grams/vehicle-start).
New "STARTS" activity inventory is required to compute RPS emissions with RPS emission rates.
RPS_MODE [default: N] : Estimates off-network RPS emissions from engine starts.

New New Off-Network Idling (ONI) Mode

New feature in Movesmrg for users to model idling emissions from parking lot, distribution centers and other off-network spaces.
Previously modeled under RatePerDistance (RPD) mode with roadtypes=1 (off-network) and speedbin=0 (speed=zero).
Unit of ONI emission rate is mass per vehicle-idling hour (grams/hour).
New "IDLING" activity inventory is required to compute ONI emissions with ONI emission rates.
ONI_MODE [default: N] : Estimates off-network idling emissions from parking, and distribution centers.

New Source Apportionment Regroup Tool

New Source Apportionment Regroup Tool will allow users to assign existing Source Apportionment (SA)-ready gridded hourly emissions and stack groups files from SMOKE to new SA group IDs.
Requires the sector-specific SA-ready gridded hourly emissions and stack group files and new regroup mapping input file called REGROUP_GROUPS.
Check out the Coordinating Research Council (CRC) A-119 Full Technical Report for the details.
Download the complete use case package data file for the SA regroup tool from the CRC Data Share Site.

BEIS v3.7 Enhancements

New BEIS Emission Factors (BEISFAC) and BELD5 landuse input files are required.
Latest BEISFAC and North America region BELD5 (1km x 1km) input files for BEIS v3.7 can be found from the CMAS Data Warehouse.
Custom BELD5 input file over your modeling domain can be developed using new updated Aggwndw utility program in SMOKE that can optionally aggregate non-mass values with the setting of AGGREGATE_EMIS_YN = N.

SMOKE4AERMOD Updates

Added new command "AERMOD ANNUAL" in Smkreport to generate emission helper files for AERMOD model for sectors other than onroad.
Overall updates across all sectors (e.g., point, area, commercial marine vessel port & underway, and gridded sectors).

Laypoint Updates

Update to treat new WRF hybrid-vertical coordinate type (-999) as existing sigma (7) coordinate.
Update to enforce fire bottom plume height starting from surface layer.
New FIRE_BOTTOM_LAYER_1_YN [Default: Y]: Define the bottom of fire plume as model layer 1.

Smkinven Updates

Prevent from dropping CEMS hourly NOX and SO2 emissions when all CEMS parameters (e.g., heat input, steam load and gross load) are missing.
Update to proper handle multiple ORIS and Boiler IDs CEMS sources under the same point source Unit ID.
PROCESS_MULT_ORIS_UNITS_YN [default: N]: Allows Smkinven to append "__##" to Unit ID to treat them as separate point sources.

Spcmat and Smkreport Updates

Generate correct Smkreport reports for the inventory sources with multiple speciation profiles assigned by GSPRO_COMBO and/or multiple GSREF cross-referencing approaches.
New speciation profile description (GSPRODESC) input file support in Smkreport. Users can optionally output the speciation profile descriptions to Smkreport "BY SPCCODE" report.

SMOKE version 4.7 (October 2019)

Average Speed Distribution (ASD) Enhancement

New feature in Movesmrg for users to optional to apply hour-specific average speed distribution profiles based on 16-speed bins by FIPS, vehicle, road, fuel, process, and day of the week
USE_AVG_SPD_DIST [default: N]: Define whether to apply hourly average speed distribution profiles by hour or not
AVGSPD_SCCXREF: Average speed distribution SCC mapping input file
SPDIST: 16-speed bin average speed distribution profiles sorted by FIPS, SCC, day of the week and hour
The impacts of these ASD correction applications have been analyzed in the presentation from the 2019 International Emissions Inventory Conference

NOx Humidity Correction Enhancement

New feature in Movesmrg for users to correct NOx emissions from exhaust processes using the gridded hourly MCIP meteorology input data
APPLY_NOX_HUMIDITY_ADJ [default: N]: Define whether to apply NOx humidity correction to all NOx emissions from RatePerDistance (RPD) and RatePerHour (RPH) modes
To avoid double NOx humidity correction to existing MOVES lookup tables that already adjusted NOx humidity correction, new header line "HUMIDITY_ADJUSTED_NOX [Y|N]" has been added. If HUMIDITY_ADJUSTED_NOX is set to Y, then APPLY_NOX_HUMIDITY_ADJ=Y setting will be ignored. If there is no header line exited, APPLY_NOX_HUMIDITY_ADJ=Y setting will be also ignored based on an assumption that those MOVES lookup tables already adjusted NOx humidity correction during the MOVES runs
Use the official MOVES 2014 NOx humidity correction equation (K):

"K =1.0-(Specific humidity-75%)*Humidity correction coefficient"

The bounded Specific humidity unit is in units of grains of water per pound of dry air. The specific humidity is not allowed to be lower than 21 grains and is not allowed to be larger than 124 grains. If the specific humidity input exceeds these limits, the value of the limit is used to calculate the humidity adjustment. Humidity correction coefficients: 0.0038 for Gasoline fuel type and 0.0026 for Diesel fuel type
The impacts of NOx humidity correction applications have been analyzed in the presentation from the 2019 International Emissions Inventory Conference

Grdmat Updates

Fixed a bug of initialization of sphere specification (IOAPI_ISPH)
Updated to treat all modeling domain parameters as double precision

Temporal Updates

Added new hierarchy for Plant Identification and Unit Identification level temporal cross-reference entry

SMOKE version 4.6 (September 2018)

SMOKE4AERMOD Development

Generates customized Smkreport summary reports based on the latest U.S. EPA NEI inventories for SMOKE4AERMOD post-processing scripts that generate AERMOD helper input files for various inventory sectors. Following sectors are covered to support upcoming U.S. EPA NATA 2014 studies:
Supported Inventory Sectors: Nonpoint, Nonpoint oil and gas (np_oilgas), Point EGU (ptegu), Point Non-IPM (ptnonipm), Point Airports (ptairport), Nonroad, Onroad (RPD, RPV, RPH, RPP), Residential Wood Combustions (RWC), Commercial Marine Vessel (CMV) and Rail
SMOKE4AERMOD Design Documents describing how to develop sector-specific AERMOD helper input files for AERMOD chi/Q mode
Bug fixes since the SMOKE version 4.5 release in April 2017

Elevpoint Updates

Bug fix to avoid stacksize memory limit issue by reducing the local array size
Added NAICS code into an elevated source grouping supplimentary report (REPPELV)

Grdmat Updates

Bug fix for a proper reprojection to the same latitude-longitude projection pregridded emissions like EDGAR, RCP and HTAP global emissions input files

Movesmrge Updates

Reset any negative emission factors from MOVES lookup tables and give a warning message

Inlineto2D [New Tool]

Allows users to merge the CMAQ inline-ready 2-D point sources emissions (INLN) and elevated source stack group (STACK_GROUPS) files to generate 2-D hourly emissions for their quality assurances checks

Smkinven Updates

Bug fix to support a full or partial annual/daily/hourly TOG and HAPs integration

SMOKE Enhancements and Bug fixes

Expansion of the length of all stationary point source characteristics (i.e., Facility ID, Unit ID, Release point ID, and Process ID) from 15 characters to 20 characters
Treat stationary point source location coordinates as double precision to improve the accuracy of source locations within the modeling domain
Increased the length of Source Type (SRCTYPE) from 2 characters to 3 characters

SMOKE version 4.5 (April 2017)

SMOKE Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

SMOKE version 4.5 DOI:

SMOKE4AERMOD Development: Generating AERMOD helper input files for AERMOD chi/Q mode.

Generates customized Smkreport summary reports based on the latest U.S. EPA NEI inventories for SMOKE4AERMOD post-processing scripts that generate AERMOD helper input files for various inventory sectors. Following sectors are covered to support upcoming U.S. EPA NATA 2014 studies:
nonpoint, nonpoint oil and gas (np_oilgas), ptegu, ptnonipm, point airports (ptairport), nonroad, onroad, residential wood combustions (rwc), commercial marine vessel (CMV) and rail
Detail information about how to develop sector-specific AERMOD helper input files from SMOKE4AERMOD post-processing scripts
Required to update to SMOKE v4.5 including Smkinven, Temporal and Smkreport updates listed below.

Smkreport Updates

New "BY" Command for AERMOD support runs

For ptegu sector : AERMOD POINT PTEGU
For ptnonipm sector : AERMOD POINT PTNONIPM
For other sectors: AERMOD NONPOINT

New "CROSSWALK" Command for stationary point source sectors

Generates a supplementary cross-walk mapping output file that shows how inventory sources are grouped.

Smkinven Updates

Support a full daily/hourly TOG and HAPs integration. Along with annual inventory TOG and HAPs integration, daily and hourly inventories can be fully or partially integrated.
OUTPUT_LOCAL_TIME [default:N]
NO_STACK_REPLACE_FUGITIVE [default:N]

Temporal Updates

OUTPUT_LOCAL_TIME [default:N]

Spcmat Updates

New Fraction-enabled GSRE Input file that allows users to apply multiple chemical speciation profiles to a single inventory source. Check out the new split factor column M in GSREF input file.
CMB_CHKFRACS [default:Y]

Elevpoint Updates

ELEV_WRITE_FAKE_SRC [default:Y]

Other bug fixes

Several minor bugs have been fixed since SMOKE v4.0 release (September 2016).

SMOKE version 4.0 (September 2016)

Supports EDGAR Gridded Inventories

Processes the global gridded inventories, such as the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) inventories
IMPORT_GRDNETCDF_YN [default:N]

NETCDF_INV_YEAR [default: 0]

GRIDMASK input file that

Added the sample case of EDGAR gridded inventory processing in the SMOKE v4.0 release package.

Check out the SMOKE user's guide (Chapter 4.4.7.2. Pre-Gridded Inventory Processing) for the detail information.

New Geographical Code (GEOCODE_LEVEL) Approach

It is the new alternative method to replace COSTCY (traditional 6-digit FIPS code). As of SMOKE v4.0, traditional 6-digit integer FIPS will be treated as 12-characters.
USE_EXP_GEO_CODE [default: N]

Supports California Air Resource Board (CARB) expanded 20-characters SCC and SIC

: As of SMOKE v4.0, SCC and SIC are internally treated as 20-characters.

Processes CARB's gridded daily/hourly MEDS (Modeling Emissions Data System) inventories

IMPORT_MEDS_YN [default:N]
New GAI_LOOKUP_TABLE input file
New ROWCOL_LATLON input file
Download the Smoke2meds package

smoke2meds package

Smkreport update to generate CARB's Quality Assurance Data Extraction Format (QADEF) summary reports

: Added a new command called "CARB_QADEF" to generate CARB's QADEF summary report in Smkreport

New postprocessing script for NONROAD model

SMOKE-NONROAD Processing Scripts Github repository

Various updates to MOVES-SMOKE postprocessing scripts

SMOKE-MOVES Processing Scripts Github repository

Latest IOAPI version 3.2 or later is required to compile the SMOKE version 4.0

Restructured the entire SMOKE source code directory: Merged EDSS_TOOl and FileSetAPI libraries into SMOKE main libraries.

Retired most of fixed formatted input files in SMOKE system (i.e., IDA, EMS-95, and so on)

Introducing the SMOKE wiki page: Please check out the latest information of NEI emissions modeling platform packages.

Other minor updates and bug fixes:

Temporal: Incorrect time zones shift bug fix for Eastern Hemispheric

Gentpro: Updated to support new csv-formatted temporal profiles (TPRO) and cross-reference input file (TREF)

SMOKE version 3.7 (September 2015)

SMOKE-MOVES Git Repositories

Please check out the latest SMOKE-MOVES processing scripts that support the latest MOVES2014 and upcoming MOVES2014a:

SMOKE-MOVES Processing Scripts Github Repository

Temporal

Bug fix: Correctly apply Temporal hierarchy combination of FIPS and Plant ID for stationary point sources.

BEIS v3.6.1

Updated BEIS_VERSION value from "3.6" to "3.6.1".

FF10 Fire Inventory Support

Added an option in Smkinven to share the daily point FF10-formatted inventory for fire daily inventory with precomputed heat flux (HFLUX).

Gentpro

Enhancements: Updated to output new temporal profile (TPRO) and cross-reference (TREF) input files Riva Giuseppe Maurizio updated to support the latest FF10 formats

Invsplit

Enhancements: Riva Giuseppe Maurizio updated to support the latest FF10 formats

Movesmrg

Enhancement: Apply the same internal SCC cross-referencing input file (SCCXREF) used for mobile activity inventories (i.e., VMT, VPOP, HOTELLING) to an optional averaged vehicle speed hourly profiles input file (SPDPRO) for RatePerDistance (RPD) processing.

Enhancement: Implemented a total of 21 hierarchy combinations based on FIPS, SCC, month and pollutant name for an optional control factors input file (CFPRO).

1. Country/state/county code, 10-digit SCC, month, and pollutant
2. Country/state/county code, 10-digit SCC, and month
3. Country/state/county code, 10-digit SCC, and pollutant
4. Country/state/county code, and 10-digit SCC
5. Country/state code, 10-digit SCC, month, and pollutant
6. Country/state code, 10-digit SCC, and month
7. Country/state code, 10-digit SCC, and pollutant
8. Country/state code, and 10-digit SCC
9. 10-digit SCC, month, and pollutant
10. 10-digit SCC, and month
11. 10-digit SCC, and pollutant
12. 10-digit SCC
13. Country/state/county code, month, and pollutant
14. Country/state/county code, and month
15. Country/state/county code, and pollutant
16. Country/state/county code
17. Country/state code, month, and pollutant
18. Country/state code, and month
19. Country/state code, and pollutant
20. Country/state code
21. Ultimate default (no pollutant, no month, country/state/county code = 0, SCC = 0)

SMOKE version 3.6.5 (June 2015)

Movesmrg

Use USE_SPCMAT_SPC_YN to optionally estimate air quality model species using chemical speciation profiles [GSPRO] input file. This option will allow users not to use MOVES-generated model species emission rates.

Spcmat

New flag DEFAULT_CONV_FAC_ERROR that gives an error when there is no matched VOC to TOG conversion factor entry in GSCNV input file instead of warning message.

BEIS v3.6.1 Release

Fixed BEIS v3.6.1 including a bug fix occurred in the BEIS3.6.

Temporal

Correctly time-shift Eastern hemisphere inventory sources.

MOVES2014 Drive Script

Download the latest SMOKE-MOVES2014 Processing Scripts including a bug fix in Runspec_generator script to support MOVES2014.

Smkreport

Added new "BY" instruction commands to create various temporal profile summary reports. Detail information is available at Smkreport BY Instruction.

BY MONCODE: Report by monthly temporal profile types

BY DOMCODE: Report by month to day temporal profile types

BY WEKCODE: Report by weekly temporal profile types

BY MNDCODE: Report by hourly Monday temporal profile types

BY TUECODE: Report by hourly Tuesday temporal profile types

BY WEDCODE: Report by hourly Wednesday temporal profile types

BY THUCODE: Report by hourly Thursday temporal profile types

BY FRICODE: Report by hourly Friday temporal profile types

BY SATCODE: Report by hourly Saturday temporal profile types

BY SUNCODE: Report by hourly Sunday temporal profile types

BY METCODE: Report by meteorology-based hourly temporal profile types

SMOKE version 3.6 (September 2014)

MOVES2014 Support

New Source Category Codes (SCCs) from MOVES2014 created by U.S. EPA. Detail information from New SCCs information

Use USE_SCC_REF_YN option in Smkinven to use the new SCC8-to-SCC10 cross-reference input file (SCCXREF) to disaggregate SCC8-level mobiles source activity invenotry data (i.e., VMT, VPOP, SPEED and HOTELLING) into full SCC10-level.

Optionally drop any SCCs not listed in SCCXREF input file with EXCLUDE_REF_SCC_YN = Y when USE_SCC_REF_YN is set to Y.

SMOKE-MOVES2010 Processes names (i.e., EXH, EVP, and so on) are longer use in SMOKE-MOVES2014 integration tool.

New MOVES2014 Processing Scripts to support SMOKE-MOVES2014 integration tool. Detail information about "how to use the scripts" from MOVES Utility Scripts

Download the latest SMOKE-MOVES2014 Processing Scripts to create SMOKE-ready MOVES2014 Lookup tables.

Movesmrg
Optimization update that enhanced Movesmrg computational time up to 40%.

New RatePerHour (RPH) mode is added to model Extended Idel Exhaust process separately

USE_REF_CONTROL_FAC_YN flag to apply control factors by reference county when USE_CONTROL_FACTORS is set to Y.

USE_EXP_CONTROL_FAC_YN flag to apply control factors by explicit inventory pollutant and model species names when USE_CONTROL_FACTORS is set to Y.

Use MTMP_OUTPUT_YN to Optionally ouptput hourly emissions (a.k.a. Temporal intermediate output files) for Smkreport to generate hourly emissions summary reports based on Movesmrg hourly emissions estimates. NOTE: User must NOT use "BY CELL" instruction in Smkreport REPCONFIG input file. "BY CELL" report will generate inconsistent results since the hourly gridded emissions are estimated by Movesmrg instead of Grdmat.

Temporal

New CVS-formatted Temporal profiles and cross-reference input files: [A|M|P]TPRO_[MONTHLY|WEEKLY|DAILY|HOURLY] and [A|M|P]TREF.

New Month to Day Temporal profile input file ([A|M|P]TPRO_DAILY) is introduced
Use Temporal Profiles and Reference Files Converter Script to convert older TPRO and TREF input files into new CVS-formatted Temporal profiles and cross-reference input flies.

BEIS v3.6 Release

Latest BEIS v3.6 is now integrated into SMOKE v3.6.

Check out new input files (B360FAC and BELD4) required by BEIS v3.6

Source Apportionment Support

Updated to fully support area, point and biogenic source categories in SMOKE modeling system.

SMOKE version 3.5 (September 2013)

MOVES Driver Script: Runspec_generator.pl

Updated to read new "MOVES_RH_OUTFILE" output file from Met4moves to support daily gridded min/max temperatures in MOVES RPP processing in SMOKE.

MOVES Post-processing Script: Moves2smkEF.pl

Updated a list of pollutants processed through MOVES-SMOKE integration tool.

Gentpro

Added a new profile method "BASH_NH3" under "PROFILE_METHOD" that allows users to calculate temporal hourly profiles for livestock ammonia sources, and renamed the original AGNH3 method to RC_NH3.

RC_NH3: use the Russell and Cass algorithm to calculate temporal hourly profiles for agricultural ammonia sources

BASH_NH3: Use the algorithm to calculate temporal hourly profiles for livestock ammonia sources: Added a new "AERO_RESISTANCE_VAR" for aerodynamic resistance variable name for the BASH_NH3 method.

Met4moves

Added a new flag "SPEFIFIC_HUMIDITY_YN" that allows users to optionally output specific humidity by temperature bin instead of relative humidity(RH)

Added a new output file "MOVES_RH_OUTFILE" for MOVES runspec_generator script to create RPD and PRV runspec MOVES input files. It contains the reference county-specific average RH, minimum and maximum temperatures by temperature bin and fuel month.

Disabled RH_STR_HOUR and RH_END_HOUR flags. All hour RH values will be used to compute average RH by temperature bin. MIN_NO_RH_BY_TEMPBIN flag to determine number of sources to compute average RH by temperature bins.

Removed AVERAGING_METHOD: [default: DAILY]. No longer support for Monthly averaging method for RPP processing

Movesmrg

Added Source grouping option to support source apportionment method in CAMx and CMAQ models

Optionally output hourly emissions (Temporal intermediate output file) using MTMP_OUTPUT_YN. It requires new environment variable "MTMP_INV" as the output filename

Process new gridded min/max daily temperatures for RPP mode processing

Added warning message when there is no activity inventory SCC found in MOVES Lookup tables

Bug fix: Does not look for Jan 1 following year to process Dec 31

Laypoint

New vertical allocation algorithm when processing pre-computed plume rise variables (i.e., LAY1F, PBOT, PTOP) to avoid any discontinuity of plume during the model layer vertical allocations.

Smkinven

Enabling combining VOC and HAPs together for hourly and daily inventories for ORL and FF10 formats.

No longer setting all pollutants to zero when CEM NOx hourly emissions is zero.

Bug fix: Processing FF10_[NONPOINT|POINT]_[HOURLY|DAILY] inventory data files.

Bug fix: Replaced NHAPEXCLUDE_YN flag with SMK_PROCESS_HAPS. NHAPEXCLUDE_YN flag is no longer in use.

Smkmerge

Source apportionment in SMOKE consists of grouping sources by characteristics (i.e. FIPS code, SCC, and point source information) and then tagging the emissions from those groupings for further analysis in the air quality model. The SMOKE programs Movesmrg and Smkmerge can optionally output the emissions in special files used for later source apportionment processing. See detail information from SMOKE v3.5 user's guide Chapter 4.4.24.

Spcmat

Expand speciation profile ID greater than 5 digit.

SMOKE version 3.1 (September 2012)

MOVES Driver Script: Runspec_generator.pl

Added new pollutants (VOC and Hg) into a list of output pollutants.

Added refueling (RFL) process IDs for RPD and RPV as a part of support of MOVES 2010b.

MOVES Post-processing Script: Moves2smkEF.pl

moves2smkEF.pl [--output expanded|consolidated|all] [-c] [-r RPD|RPV|RPP] InputDBlist OutputPath
: Added two new features [-r and -c] that allow the user to create various types of MOVES lookup tables. See more detail information at http://www.smoke-model.org/version3.1/html/ch05s02s04.html
Uses an optional ' -r' flag to indicate which process type of output files are desired: RPD, RPV or RPP. The default setting is to create all three at once.

Uses an optional ' -c' flag to indicate whether to create combined tables that contain both the refueling (RFL) process along with other processes. The default setting is to create separate tables for refueling.

MOVES Post-processing Script: SmkEFsum.pl

SmkEFsum.pl [--delete] [-c] [-r RPD|RPV|RPP] InputDBlist OutputPath
: Added two new feature [-c and -r] that allow the user to create process type of MOVES lookup tables desired. See more detail information at http://www.smoke-model.org/version3.1/html/ch05s02s04.html'
Uses an optional ' -r' flag to indicate which process type of output files are desired: RPD, RPV or RPP. The default setting is to create all three at once.

Uses an optional ' -c' flag to indicate whether to create combined tables that contain both the refueling (RFL) process along with other processes. The default setting is to create separate tables for refueling.

Met4moves

AVERAGING_METHOD: [default:DAILY]
: Defines averaging method to create inventory county-specific averaged RH and min/max temperatures for MOVES RPP processing.

DAILY: Daily averaged RH and min/max temperatures for each inventory county within the user-specified modeling episode

MONTHLY: Monthly averaged RH and min/max temperatures for each inventory county within the user-specified modeling episode

TEMP_BUFFER_BIN: [default: 0.0]
: Defines the temperature buffer value (°F). This value will allow Met4moves to expand the min/max temperature range for MOVES RPP processing. If TEMP_BUFFER_BIN is set to 10.0, the original max temperature which is 90.0°F will be treated as 100.0°F, and the original minimum temperaure which is 30°F will be treated as 20.0°F internally in Met4moves.

Movesmrg

MEMORY_OPTIMIZE_YN: [default:Y]
: Allow the user to use less RAM memory. However, it will increase computational time of RPD_MODE and RPV_MODE runs.

Y: Runs in memory optimization mode

N: Runs in faster mode using high capacity of RAM memory

USE_CONTROL_FACTORS: [default:N]
: Allows the user to apply control factor by region, SCC, pollutant, process mode, and month.

Y: Apply control factors to MOVES emission rates from MOVES lookup tables.

N: Do not apply control factors

TEMP_BUFFER_BIN: [default: 0.0]
:Defines the temperature buffer value (°F). This value allows Movesmrg to cover the outside of min/max temperature range in SMOKE_OUTFILE from Met4moves for Movesmrg RPP processing. Emission rates for those temperatures outside of original temperatures will share the ones from orignal max/min temperatures. For an example, if TEMP_BUFFER_BIN is set to 10.0 and the original max temperature is 90.0°F, then an input temperature of 98.0°F will use the same emission factor as 90.0°F. While an input temperature of 101.0°F will raise an error because it is outside the extended temperature range of the MOVES lookup tables. The same approach will hold true for the minimum temperature. will be treated as 100.0°F, and minimum temperaure (=30°F) will be treated as 20.0°F internally in Movesmrg. Emission rates for those temperatures outside of original temperature range will share the ones from original max/min temperatures.

Gentpro

This program is to create meteorology-based temporal profiles for inventory sources to obtain better representation of the temporal resolution of emissions. Please see 'The Gentpro Technical Summary Document' for more information. Here are two major flags that allow a user to create various representation and resolutions of temporal profiles.

PROFILE_METHOD: [default:MET]
: Indicates which of the three temporal profile types to generate by Gentpro

RWC: use the Adelman's regression equation to calculate temporal profiles for residential wood combustion (RWC) sources

AGNH3: use the Russell and Cass algorithm to calculate temporal hourly profiles for agricultural ammonia sources

MET: use the time series of the selected meteorology variable to calculate temporal profiles

TPRO_OUTPUT: [default:ALL]
: Specifies temporal resolution of temporal profiles to produce.

MONTHLY: generate month of year temporal profiles

DAILY: generate day of year temporal profiles

HOURLY: generate hour of year temporal profiles. [Not applicable when PROF_METHOD = RWC. Only applicable when PROF_METHOD = AGNH3]

ALL: generate all possible profiles for the selected profile method. [No hourly profiles will be generated when PROF_METHOD = RWC]

Mrgpt

Enhancement: Merge any point source hourly speciated emissions from Smkmerge and ASCII elevated output files from Elevpoint for CMAQ inline-mode. It also allows the user to apply control factor by species and by modeling point sector.

Smkinven

Enabling "SMKINVEN_FORMULA" feature for hourly and daily inventories in both FF10 and EMS-95 formats. For example, this is helpful to compute PMC.

Processing FF10_ACTIVITY, FF10_NONPOINT, FF10_POINT and FF10_[NONPOINT|POINT]_[HOURLY|DAILY] inventory formats with existing IDA, ORL, and EMS-95 formats

Smkreport

Reported incorrect values when inventory pollutant name shared the same name as model species (e.g., BENZENE).

Temporal

Updated to process meteorological-based temporal profiles created by Gentpro

Give an error while processing mobile source activity inventory data (i.e., VMT and VPOP).

SMOKE version 3.0 (September 2011)

MOVES postprocessing script: Moves2smkEF.pl

Removed the SCC mapping section in the script to speed up the processing time, since MOVES2010a can output emission factors by SCC.

Updated to handle negative temperatures when creating MOVEScenarioIDs. SQL does not handle '-' correctly when the script concatenates it to create MOVEScenarioIDs. When a temperature value is negative, '-' is now replaced with 'n'.

Can optionally output an aggregated/consolidated emission processes version of MOVES lookup tables for SMOKE using a new postprocessing script, smkEFsum.pl listed below

Renamed previous evaporative permission emissions process code 'EVP' to 'EPM' emission process code to avoid conflict with the consolidated code 'EVP' in the new consolidated lookup tables.

Renamed VOC in the lookup tables to VOC_INV to output the original VOC emissions to daily total report from Movesmrg.

Added new equations to compute nitrous acid (HONO) using NO and NO2 and coarse particulate matters (PMC) from brake wear and tire wear modes using PM10BRAKE, PM25BRAKE, PM10TIRE AND PM25TIRE emissions factors from MOVES. Find more information at SMOKE manual Chapter 5.2.4

Added a new header line, '#NUM_TEMP_BIN', that determines the total number of unique temperature bins from RatePerDistance (RPD), RatePerVehicle (RPV), and RatePerProfile (RPP) lookup tables, to speed up the processing time of Movesmrg.

No more negative primary organic carbon (POC) estimates that were caused by overestimated NH4. Find more information at SMOKE manual Chapter 5.2.4

Filling missing RPD emission factors (EFs) for SCCRoadtypes that were not in representative counties using the algorithms from U.S. EPA that calculate and replace missing EFs using other SCCRoadtypes EFs.

Filling missing and incorrect RPV extended idle emission factors in MOVES lookup tables. Updated Moves2smkEF.pl script to remove all the existing extended idle rates from the RPV table and replace them with national-average EFs. U.S. EPA created and posted national-scale multiple-year extended idle EFs tables 'MOVES2010a_extended_idle_factors.zip' for the community through U.S. EPA CHIEF Web site

MOVES postprocessing script: SmkEFsum.pl

Reduced the size of SMOKE-ready MOVES lookup tables generated by Moves2smkEF.pl.

Significantly reduced Movesmrg computational processing time, a result of the reduced size of MOVES lookup tables.

Allows users to use the latest SMOKE ancillary input files from U.S. EPA (i.e., inventory tables and chemical speciation profiles/cross-references) with minor modification to process MOVES lookup tables through the SMOKE modeling system.

Uses an optional ' --delete' flag that causes the script to delete the original MRCLIST and emission factors files after creating the consolidated files.

Uses an optional ' --output' flag to indicate which type of output files are desired: consolidated, expanded, or all.

Options

* consolidated: Creates one set of consolidated 'summed' tables and MRCLIST 'summed' files. It also removes any previous 'expanded' MRCLIST files if they exist.

* expanded: Creates one set of expanded tables and MRCLIST files.

* all: Creates two sets of tables and MRCLIST files one 'expanded', the other 'consolidated'.

Movesmrg

Reduced computational time up to 24-fold by reorganizing the loop of processing time to reference county and by using a predetermined number of temperature bins set using a new header line, '#NUM_TEMP_BIN', in MOVES lookup tables.

Outputs inventory pollutants (e.g., CO, NOX, VOC_INV, NH3) to daily total summary report by default.

Can process both the mole-based speciation matrix (MSMAT_L) and the mass-based speciation matrix (MSMAT_S) simultaneously to output mole-based CMAQ-ready output files and mass-based daily total summary reports. This update allows Movesmrg to output both output files in a single run.

Supports weekday/weekend speed 24-hour profiles (SPDPRO) by source.

Supports daily county-specific min/max temperatures using RPP lookup table.

MRG_REPSCC_YN: [default:N]

Outputs daily total of model species/inventory pollutants by SCC

o Y: Output daily total report by SCC

o N: Do not output daily total report by SCC

MRG_REPSRC_YN: [default:N]

Outputs daily total report by source, which is equivalent to MRG_REPSCC_YN = Y and MRG_REPCNY_YN = Y. If MRG_REPSRC_YN is set to Y, both MRG_REPSCC_YN and MRG_REPCNY_YN will be set to N.

o Y: Output daily total report by source

o N: Do not output daily total report by source

Smkinven

Supports FF10_ACTIVITY inventory format for vehicle mileage traveled (VMT), vehicle speed (SPEED), and vehicle population (VPOP) activity inventories.

Supports FF10_NONPOINT inventory format for area sources.

Supports FF10_[NONPOINT|POINT]_[HOURLY|DAILY] format for area/point hourly or daily inventories.

User can choose to input the month-specific inventory data in various FF10 formats using the new environment variable SMKINVEN_MONTH.

Grdmat

No longer outputs an ungridding matrix (UGMAT) for mobile sources, since MOBILE6 is no longer supported as of SMOKE v3.0.

Allows users to disable constructing internal SCCs for mobile sources using vehicle type and road type numbers using MCODES file. Default value is set to N to construct internal SCCs during cross-referencing gridding surrogates.

Met4moves

Supports the DAILY averaging method, so it can output either daily or monthly min/max temperatures for Movesmrg RPP processing.

Bug fix: Met4moves now correctly handles county-specific local time zone conversion in order to estimate county-specific min/max temperatures accurately.

Spcmat

Allows users to disable constructing internal SCCs for mobile sources using vehicle type and road type numbers using MCODES file. Default value is set to N to construct internal SCCs during cross-referencing gridding surrogates.

Temporal

Allows users to disable constructing internal SCCs for mobile sources using vehicle type and road type numbers using MCODES file. Default value is set to N to construct internal SCCs during cross-referencing gridding surrogates.