SMOKE supports a variety of inventory formats for criteria, particulate, toxics, and activity data inventories, which are described in detail in Section 8.2, “Inventory Files”. Here, we provide a brief introduction to these formats, which will be helpful as you read more about SMOKE in the remainder of this chapter and the chapters before Chapter 8, SMOKE Input Files. All formats described here are text files. To convert your data to these formats, the best approach is to use a database or spreadsheet program to reformat and output the data in the requested format. There is not a standard format-conversion method that comes with SMOKE.
In the following paragraphs, we describe the formats available for nonpoint/stationary area, nonroad mobile, on-road mobile, point, and point-wildfire sources.
Nonpoint/stationary area sources: SMOKE supports two formats for nonpoint/stationary area sources. The ORL and FF10 (Flat File 10) format are list directed (comma or semicolon delimited) and these file formats may be used to represent many different sources. The header of the file indicates what source data are in the file.
Nonroad mobile sources: There are three available inventory formats for nonroad mobile sources. The FF10 (Flat File 10) format is list directed (comma or semicolon delimeted) and the header of the file is used to indicate the nonroad mobile source data is within the file.
On-road mobile sources: The Flat File 10 (FF10) format is list directed (comma or semicolon delimited) and contains activity inventory such as VMT, speed, and vehicle population data. This format requires VMT, SPEED, and VPOP inventory data.
Point sources: SMOKE has formats for annual or average-day inventories, for day-specific inventories, and for hour-specific inventories. For annual or average-day inventories, the ORL and FF10 formats can be used for criteria, particulate, and toxics inventories. Finally, the CEM data format can be used for day-specific or hour-specific data : SMOKE uses the ORIS codes and boiler codes in the annual inventory files to match sources from the CEM data files.
Wildfire sources: There are two approches available that you can provide wildfire data that are being treated as point sources to SMOKE using the ORL and FF10 point-source formats.