# Where can I get the BIOMASS and BELD6 files needed by running Normbeis4 program **URL:** \ **Category:** SMOKE\ **Created:** [November 13, 2023, 4:53am UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/where-can-i-get-the-biomass-and-beld6-files-needed-by-running-normbeis4-program/4537 "2023-11-13T04:53:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LYM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b38774/32.png) [@LYM](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/LYM)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 4:53am UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/where-can-i-get-the-biomass-and-beld6-files-needed-by-running-normbeis4-program/4537/1 "2023-11-13T04:53:49Z")
Dear all, I try to run the script “Annual\_beis\_12US1\_2020ha2\_cb6\_20k.csh” provided by the EPA’s 2020 emissions modeling platform. Because I use my own domain: ‘21JuneD01’ ‘LAM\_40N97W’, -1152000., -1368000., 36.D3, 36.D3, 108, 78, 1 So I need run the Normbeis4 program by myself to generate the new normalized emissions file. The error I encountered notices me that I need BIOMASS and BELD6 files for successfully running Normbeis4 program. Where can I get the BIOMASS and BELD6 files? Thank you very much! @eyth.alison Best wishes, Lingyun ---
**Author:** ![jvukovich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@jvukovich](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/jvukovich)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/where-can-i-get-the-biomass-and-beld6-files-needed-by-running-normbeis4-program/4537/2 "2023-11-29T15:28:39Z")
Lingyun, I created the NORMBEIS4 inputs files and ran NORMBEIS4 with those files to ensure they work properly. You can find the NORMBEIS4 inputs and output files here: [https://gaftp.epa.gov/Air/emismod/tmp/beis4/](https://gaftp.epa.gov/Air/emismod/tmp/beis4/) Just look for the grid name “21JuneD01” in the filename and download the 3 files. Please let me know if you are successful in using these files and if you have further BEIS4 questions. Jeff Vukovich [Vukovich.Jeffrey@epa.gov](mailto:Vukovich.Jeffrey@epa.gov) ---
**Author:** ![LYM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b38774/32.png) [@LYM](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/LYM)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/where-can-i-get-the-biomass-and-beld6-files-needed-by-running-normbeis4-program/4537/3 "2023-12-08T20:35:43Z")
Hi jvukovich, Sorry for my late reply! Thanks very much for providing these input files for me. My server dosen’t work in these days. I will run “Annual\_beis\_12US1\_2020ha2\_cb6\_20k.csh” again using these input files after my server is fixed and tell you whether I am successful in running this script. Thanks again! Best regards, Lingyun ---
**Author:** ![LYM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b38774/32.png) [@LYM](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/LYM)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/where-can-i-get-the-biomass-and-beld6-files-needed-by-running-normbeis4-program/4537/4 "2024-01-01T23:10:57Z")
Hi Jeff, Happy new year! Very sorry for my too late reply! After I fixed my server, I was busy for the other works and didn’t have time to run NORMBEIS4 again in December. Now I finally have time to run it again, but I have encountered this error: ![34113b6be459317d2d3f38c24dd95e1](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/cmas/original/2X/0/02f8f7a20cdcfd17354b0cabd41b4b2c9913ab5e.png) Do you know how I can resovle this error? Thank you very much! My script is as followed: [Annual\_beis\_12US1\_2020ha2\_cb6\_20k.csh](https://forum.cmascenter.org/uploads/short-url/3zp03hLgDP9m3SqLAv50vDtCZQJ.csh) (11.9 KB) Thank you again! Best wishes, Lingyun ---
**Author:** ![jvukovich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@jvukovich](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/jvukovich)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/where-can-i-get-the-biomass-and-beld6-files-needed-by-running-normbeis4-program/4537/5 "2024-01-02T15:12:03Z")
You are using an old emissions factor file. Please use the BELD6 emissions factor file here: [https://gaftp.epa.gov/Air/emismod/tmp/beis4/beld6\_efac\_with\_ag\_yn.csv](https://gaftp.epa.gov/Air/emismod/tmp/beis4/beld6_efac_with_ag_yn.csv) This is the BEISFAC file in the SMOKE Users Manual described here: [https://www.cmascenter.org/smoke/documentation/5.0/html/ch04s13s03.html](https://www.cmascenter.org/smoke/documentation/5.0/html/ch04s13s03.html) ---
**Author:** ![LYM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b38774/32.png) [@LYM](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/LYM)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 2:33am UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/where-can-i-get-the-biomass-and-beld6-files-needed-by-running-normbeis4-program/4537/6 "2024-01-03T02:33:29Z")
Hi Jeff, I use the new emissions facter file but I encounter a new error: ![1704248953848](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/cmas/original/2X/9/9f654c5838a20959f0f12481d325f76a78a9ed31.png) My METCRO2D doesn’t incude “WSAT\_PX”. I set the sf\_surface\_physics option to 2 instead of 7, so NOAH LSM but not PX LSM is selected in WRF to obtain wrfout data, which is used for running MCIP. ---
**Author:** ![jvukovich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@jvukovich](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/jvukovich)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/where-can-i-get-the-biomass-and-beld6-files-needed-by-running-normbeis4-program/4537/7 "2024-01-03T14:10:45Z")
OK, sounds like you successfully executed NORMBEIS4 and now are working on TMPBEIS4 execution. Assuming you are using SMOKEv5, set PX\_VERSION to “N” and see if that gets you passed this error. ---
**Author:** ![LYM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b38774/32.png) [@LYM](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/LYM)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 3:30am UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/where-can-i-get-the-biomass-and-beld6-files-needed-by-running-normbeis4-program/4537/8 "2024-01-04T03:30:13Z")
Hi Jeff, After I set PX\_VERSION to N, the error about “WSAT\_PX” is resolved, but a new error occur: ![0b11306321543c252aa657aeffb3fe8](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/cmas/original/2X/c/c43818eb2382660b37b71c1a461a0686e1b5426b.png) When I check the tmpbeis4 log, I find that the log stops at: ![7d7dadb33866e27f13d896497b9dff1](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/cmas/original/2X/6/6125b36410836a52e84176bb14566b82edc5f4ec.png) But I can not find any “ERROR” in this log. I use SMOKE provided by [https://gaftp.epa.gov/Air/emismod/2020/](https://gaftp.epa.gov/Air/emismod/2020/) to run BEIS4 and the SMOKE version is SMOKE 5.0. Thanks, Lingyun ---
**Author:** ![eyth.alison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@eyth.alison](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/eyth.alison)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/where-can-i-get-the-biomass-and-beld6-files-needed-by-running-normbeis4-program/4537/9 "2024-01-08T18:55:03Z")
Can you please upload your full log file and the script you are using so we can better understand what happened? It is obvious there was a segmentation fault but we are unclear as to why. ---
**Author:** ![LYM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b38774/32.png) [@LYM](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/LYM)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 3:56am UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/where-can-i-get-the-biomass-and-beld6-files-needed-by-running-normbeis4-program/4537/10 "2024-01-09T03:56:27Z")
Hi Jeff, Please find attached files about: the script (Annual\_beis\_12US1\_2020ha2\_cb6\_20k.csh); [Annual\_beis\_12US1\_2020ha2\_cb6\_20k.csh](https://forum.cmascenter.org/uploads/short-url/pWOH9NBkpQQicM8jZ2jVjMH4sY8.csh) (11.8 KB) the running log (run.log) [run.txt](https://forum.cmascenter.org/uploads/short-url/vHwUS9JVE8vNsExr951JDoZBu9U.txt) (7.8 KB) those logs in /EPA2020/2020ha2\_cb6\_20k/intermed/beis4/logs/ (tmpbeis4\_beis4\_2020ha2\_cb6\_20k\_20210601\_21JuneD01.log; normbeis4\_beis4\_2020ha2\_cb6\_20k\_21JuneD01.log;helper\_scripts\_list\_beis4\_2020ha2\_cb6\_20k\_21JuneD01.txt; timelog\_beis4\_2020ha2\_cb6\_20k\_21JuneD01.txt) [helper\_scripts\_list\_beis4\_2020ha2\_cb6\_20k\_21JuneD01.txt](https://forum.cmascenter.org/uploads/short-url/czm6PVNF0HDhFtXCGGK5Laie7B1.txt) (820 Bytes) [normbeis4\_beis4\_2020ha2\_cb6\_20k\_21JuneD01.log.txt](https://forum.cmascenter.org/uploads/short-url/alM7iHRpb6ONSECgsuoATRsZ5UN.txt) (20.9 KB) [timelog\_beis4\_2020ha2\_cb6\_20k\_21JuneD01.txt](https://forum.cmascenter.org/uploads/short-url/y1bu1D8FzxZGkSdFolpzdKRVZAy.txt) (308 Bytes) [tmpbeis4\_beis4\_2020ha2\_cb6\_20k\_20210601\_21JuneD01.log.txt](https://forum.cmascenter.org/uploads/short-url/c6aOrBe47UU5jPHsPYr7PAzHyyZ.txt) (7.7 KB) Thank you! ---
**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:** [March 10, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/where-can-i-get-the-biomass-and-beld6-files-needed-by-running-normbeis4-program/4537/11 "2025-03-10T17:39:43Z")
Hi, i am having the same issue. need biomass and beld6 files for my domains. i am using the 2019 platform and can you please guide me how to generate these files? thanks ‘2019\_D02’ ‘LamCon\_40N\_97W’, 1246000.000, 406000.000, 4000.000, 4000.000, 193, 181, 1 ‘2019\_D03’ ‘LamCon\_40N\_97W’, 1355500.000, 479500.000, 1333.333000, 1333.333000, 52, 67, 1 ‘2019\_D04’ ‘LamCon\_40N\_97W’, 1738000.000, 806000.000, 1333.333000, 1333.333000, 93, 87, 1 ---
**Author:** ![LYM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b38774/32.png) [@LYM](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/LYM)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 8:29am UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/where-can-i-get-the-biomass-and-beld6-files-needed-by-running-normbeis4-program/4537/12 "2025-03-13T08:29:06Z")
Hi, I am very sorry for my late reply. I didn’t get the beld6 files successfully and finally used the BEIS model provided by the 2017 platform to generate biomass emissions without the beld6 files. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2025, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/where-can-i-get-the-biomass-and-beld6-files-needed-by-running-normbeis4-program/4537/13 "2025-03-13T13:25:20Z")
Thank you so much for the reply Lym. I also got the version in 2019 platform working. really wanted to use beis4 as majority of my domain is in Canada. thanks again. ---
**Author:** ![LYM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b38774/32.png) [@LYM](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/LYM)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/where-can-i-get-the-biomass-and-beld6-files-needed-by-running-normbeis4-program/4537/14 "2025-03-13T14:09:48Z")
Hi shayamila, That’s great to hear that you resolved this problem! So you prepared the beld6 files by yourself? Thanks, Lingyun ---
**Author:** ![eyth.alison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@eyth.alison](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/eyth.alison)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/where-can-i-get-the-biomass-and-beld6-files-needed-by-running-normbeis4-program/4537/15 "2025-03-14T20:50:31Z")
Where is your domain and what resolution do you need? Can you share the info from the GRIDDESC file? ---
**Author:** ![LYM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b38774/32.png) [@LYM](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/LYM)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/where-can-i-get-the-biomass-and-beld6-files-needed-by-running-normbeis4-program/4537/16 "2025-03-15T13:31:40Z")
Hi, there are two domains for my simulations: ‘LAM\_40N97W’ 2 33.000 45.000 -97.000 -97.000 40.000 ’ ’ ‘21JuneD01’ ‘LAM\_40N97W’ -1152000.000 -1368000.000 36000.000 36000.000 108 78 1 ‘LAM\_40N97W’ 2 33.000 45.000 -97.000 -97.000 40.000 ’ ’ ‘21JuneD02’ ‘LAM\_40N97W’ 48000.000 -708000.000 12000.000 12000.000 184 154 1 The resolutions of 21JuneD01 and 21JuneD02 are 36 km and 12 km, respectively. Thank you very much for your help! Best wishes, Lingyun ---
**Author:** ![eyth.alison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@eyth.alison](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/eyth.alison)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/where-can-i-get-the-biomass-and-beld6-files-needed-by-running-normbeis4-program/4537/17 "2025-03-17T14:17:38Z")
Please send me an email at eyth dot alison at epa dot gov and I will send you a link from whch you can download the files for your grids. ---
**Author:** ![eyth.alison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@eyth.alison](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/eyth.alison)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/where-can-i-get-the-biomass-and-beld6-files-needed-by-running-normbeis4-program/4537/18 "2025-03-20T20:59:25Z")
We have data available for you but I have not received an email from you requesting the link. Please email Eyth.Alison at [epa.gov](http://epa.gov) ---
**Author:** ![LYM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b38774/32.png) [@LYM](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/LYM)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/where-can-i-get-the-biomass-and-beld6-files-needed-by-running-normbeis4-program/4537/19 "2025-03-21T09:00:25Z")
Sorry for my late reply! I will email you right now! Thank you!