Hello Everyone,
I am trying to use Bluesky Pipeline output to run a fire with inline plume rise option in CMAQ. However, I am confused with the units of the HFLUX between CMAQ and bsp. Do I need to do any conversions and what unit of HFLUX does CMAQ work with?
Thanks in advance
If you are using CONSUME as your consumption model in Bluesky the heat output is in BTUs and is estimated using an assumed heat output of 8000 BTU/lb biomass consumed. The same units, BTUs, are needed for the plume rise algorithm in SMOKE/CMAQ. No unit conversions are necessary if you are using the default units in CONSUME.
A description of the plume rise parameters are available in the SMOKE documentation:
https://www.cmascenter.org/smoke/documentation/5.0/html/ch04s06.html#sect_programs_laypoint_plume_rise_fires