CMAQ PM2.5 overestimation

[Mason]

Dear Heomin,

Thank you very much for your information.

Based on my understandin, EDGARv8.1 and HTAPv3.1 offer their monthly gridmap data in a consistent format, as mentioned in their “Click to Expand” sections.

I am currently using Xarray in Python to extract a specific month from the 12-month EDGARv8.1 monthly gridmap .nc file. Following information by @ernesto.pinoc, I also sliced out the “time variable”, resulting in a time-independent .nc file containing data for that month only.

Processing RCP emissions in SMOKE

Hello Baek: Yes, I know what you want to tell me. But my question is, What happen if the netcdf file (containing emission inventory) has the variable “time step” inside. The information you gave me is considering monthly files (the sum of monthly emission) but not considering the variable “time step” inside. I remember, from SMOKE4.5 tutorial, that we have to give to SMKINVEN gridded netCDF files time independent. Am I correct??? Thanks for your time

I have to update the arinv file with my corresponding month number (instead of 0) to test if this works. However, I’m creating my GRIDMASK file at the moment. I look forward to give an update.

Kind Regards,

Mason