Abstract |
This software patch to the Models-3 system corrects minor errors in the Models-3 framework, provides substantial improvements in the ASCII to I/O API format conversion of the File Converter utility, and new functionalities for the SMOKE Tool. Version 4.1 of the Models-3 system must be installed before applying this patch. The SMOKE Tool is an emission modeling component of Model-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. This document describes corrections to the Models-3 framework system, describes the procedures used by SMOKE Tool to grid spatial surrogate data, describes how additional spatial surrogate coverages may be added, and describes a new reverse gridding capability (gridded data to county or other geographic boundary data). |