Highest possible resolution

Hi,
I was wondering if it is possible to generate high-resolution emissions eg:100m by 100m using SMOKE. Will be only using the canadian inventory and a few of the main emissions sectors such as onroad, offroad, dust and othar emissions.

Thank you.
Sham

It is possible to generate emissions at 100 x 100 m using SMOKE. The primary limitation is the resolution of the underlying spatial data used in your surrogates. Correctly allocating onroad, for example, could require link-level vehicle activity for all roads within your domain.

While this is theoretically possible if you set up a grid description properly, you would need to generate spatial surrogates for nonpoint sources at that same resolution. Point sources should work more easily as they are at lat-lon locations.

Thank you both for your replies. I will try to run the surrogates first and see how it goes.

Sham

Hi, I managed to generate emissions for 100m by 100m grid. domain is very small and located in Canada. So did not have to use most of the emissions sectors. Thanks again.
Sham


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