# Smk\_merge dates for 2002/2004/2006

**URL:** <https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/smk-merge-dates-for-2002-2004-2006/6103>\
**Category:** SMOKE\
**Created:** [December 16, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/smk-merge-dates-for-2002-2004-2006/6103 "2025-12-16T16:24:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![shayamila.gamage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shayamila.gamage](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/shayamila.gamage)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/smk-merge-dates-for-2002-2004-2006/6103/1 "2025-12-16T16:24:34Z")

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Looking for smk\_merge dates files for 2002/2004/2006 years. I found the 2002 files in the 2002v3\_smoke\_scripts\_21feb2008 folder. but not sure what the header is for the files.

here are the first few lines from a file,

20020101 20020108 20020108 20020108 20020108 20020101 20020108 20020101 20020101 20020101 20020101.90  
20020102 20020108 20020108 20020108 20020108 20020102 20020108 20020102 20020102 20020102 20020101.90  
20020103 20020108 20020108 20020108 20020108 20020108 20020108 20020110 20020103 20020103 20020101.90  
20020104 20020108 20020108 20020108 20020108 20020108 20020108 20020111 20020104 20020104 20020101.90

I tried using this in smoke and got an error wher it was looking for 20020101.90 xfrac file. im trying to use these in smoke4.8.1 version.

Please advice how to convert this to format, Date, aveday\_N, aveday\_Y, mwdss\_N, mwdss\_Y, week\_N, week\_Y, all

also, where to find the rest of the files.

Thanks a lot.

Shayamila

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**Author:** ![hogrefe.christian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@hogrefe.christian](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/hogrefe.christian)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/smk-merge-dates-for-2002-2004-2006/6103/2 "2025-12-16T16:33:38Z")

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I think you should be able to download files for all years 2002 - 2017 from the CMAS Data Warehouse EQUATES [SMOKE\_INPUT directory](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vEm5bOimwqO1T9G_P3QLqJ2tw-kNqhAj).

Specifically, based on its table-of-contents file, the file named ‘ancillary\_data\_version1.0.tar.gz’ should contain individual smk\_merge\_dates files using a ancillary\_data/smoke4.8\_helper\_scripts/scripts/smk\_dates/{year}/smk\_merge\_dates\_{year}{month}.txt file structure after downloading and uncompressing this file.

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**Author:** ![shayamila.gamage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shayamila.gamage](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/shayamila.gamage)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/smk-merge-dates-for-2002-2004-2006/6103/3 "2025-12-16T17:17:27Z")

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Thank you so much. I will use the files from here.