SMOKE v4.0 Release (September 2016)

[SMOKE version 4.0 Release]

1. Supports EDGAR Gridded Inventories
   : Proceses the global gridded inventory like the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) inventories.

2. New Geographical Code (GEOCODE_LEVEL) approach
   : Support an alternative 12-characters Geographical Code approach compared to traditional 6-digit FIPS.

3. Support California Air Resource Board (CARB) expanded 20-characters SCC and SIC.

4. Process CARB's gridded daily/hourly MEDS (Modeling Emissions Data System) inventories
   : Download the smoke2meds package that allows users to convert Smkreport summary report into CARB's MEDS format inventories. Download the package listed below "smoke2meds_CARB_20150605.tar.gz".

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

6. Various updates to MOVES-SMOKE postprocessing scripts. Check out the detail from the github repository (https://github.com/CEMPD/SMOKE-MOVES).

7. New postprocessing script for NONROAD model that generates FF10-format nonroad inventory files based on NONROAD output file (https://github.com/CEMPD/SMOKE-MOVES/tree/master/scripts/nonroad).

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

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

10. Introducing SMOKE Wiki page for the air quality community. Please check out the latest information of NEI emissions modeling platform packages:
    (http://www.airqualitymodeling.org/cmaqwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page)

11. Other minor updates and bug fixes:

    • Temporal: Time zones bug fix for Eastern Hemispheric
    • Gentpro: Updated to support new csv-formatted temporal profiles (TPRO) and cross-reference input file (TREF).

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