Abstract |
The SMOKE Tool is an emission modeling component of Models-3, a flexible system designed to simplify the development and use of air quality models and other environmental decision support tools. Models-3 is designed for applications ranging from regulatory and policy analysis to understanding the complex interactions of atmospheric chemistry and physics. The summer 2001 release of Models-3 contains a Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system for urban to regional scale air quality simulation of tropospheric ozone, acid deposition, visibility, and fine particles. One of the principal changes to the Models-3 system is the replacement of the former emission modeling system with provision to use the more flexible and efficient Sparse Matrix Operator Kernel Emission (SMOKE) modeling system (available at no cost from MCNC, North Carolina Supercomputing Center), and the SMOKE Tool to create input files for SMOKE. |