BlueSky is a framework for model management. It facilitates the
use of predictive models that simulate the cumulative impacts of smoke
on air quality from forest, agricultural, and range fires.
S.M.O.K.E.-ready output
SMOKE-ready output for use with CMAQ and other atmospheric chemistry models
The BlueSky Framework produces fire emission inventory files that are formatted for use with the Sparse Matrix Operator Kernel Emissions Modeling System (SMOKE), an emissions processing system designed to generate gridded, speciated, temporalized emission inputs for air quality models such as CMAQ.
The Framework produces two Inventory Data Analyzer (IDA) formatted files that are used by SMOKE to produce air quality model-ready emission inputs:
- PTINV file – Contains location information (latitude and longitude coordinates) for the centroid of each fire event occurring on the day(s) for which the Framework is run.
- PTHOUR file – Contains hourly plume rise and emissions data for each fire event.
The hourly plume rise data in the PTHOUR file include the fraction of emissions in the first model layer, the height of the bottom of the plume, and the height of the top of the plume. When generating three-dimensional emission inputs for CMAQ, SMOKE combines these plume characteristics with meteorological inputs to distribute fire emissions across all model layers.
**Currently only compatible for versions 2.2 and 2.3; The new version of S.M.O.K.E. is scheduled to be released in Fall 2010 and should be compatible with BlueSky Framework output.
Here is an example text file of the flags that need to be switched in S.M.O.K.E. in order to run with the BlueSky generated PTINV and PTHOUR files.
