I am hoping this is a straightforward question. I’m hoping to learn how to run MOVESv4 using the GUI and convert the resulting emission factors into a format compatible with SMOKE. I’d like to stay consistent with how the EPA develops its SMOKE-based emission modeling platforms. I’ve found several MOVES tutorials online, but most seem geared toward local air agencies and SIP development. I suspect those workflows differ from how MOVES is configured when used to generate inputs for SMOKE (e.g., Inventory v. emission rates modes), but I may be wrong.
Does anyone know of a tutorial, guide, or example that walks through running MOVESv4 in a way that prepares EF outputs for use in SMOKE? I will note that I am aware that I then use the scripts provided by GitHub - CEMPD/SMOKE-MOVES: SMOKE-MOVES Processing Scripts to convert MOVES output to SMOKE-ready EF tables, but would appreciate guidance prior to this step.
Section 2.15 of the SMOKE user’s manual describes the use of the scripts that you highlighted on GitHub to run MOVES in a way consistent with what was done for the EMPs.
Because the MOVES runspecs must be precisely created in order to generate the appropriate emission factors, SMOKE-MOVES automates the process of creating the MOVES runspecs (e.g. Runspec_generator.pl), and so the MOVES GUI isn’t used. If you would like to run MOVES via the GUI, we recommend opening the example runspec files that are included with SMOKE-MOVES in the MOVES GUI to see how they are configured.
Note that the zone-month-hour table in the county-specific inputs is very important for generating the correct temperature bins and profiles, and the MOVES runspecs need to correspond to that data. The SMOKE-MOVES runspec generator handles this by creating import XML files for MOVES to import the appropriate zone-month-hour data for each type of rate run.
Section 5.6 of the 2020 NEI Onroad TSD contains further detailed information on how MOVES and SMOKE-MOVES were configured and run to create both CMAQ-ready emissions and inventory emissions for the NEI.