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The Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) provides global past and present day anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants by country and on spatial grid.
EDGAR aims to inform scientists and policy makers on the evolution of the emission inventories over time for all world countries and to provide the scientific community 0.1degX0.1deg gridmaps representing the emissions sources.
EDGAR contributed to research projects with advice on emission gridmaps and timeseries.
In EDGARv4.3.2 emissions are calculated for the three main greenhouse gases per sector and country. For the energy related sectors the activity data are mainly based on the energy balance statistics of IEA (2014) (Internet: http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/energy/co2-emissions-from-fuel-combustion-2014_co2_fuel-2014-en), whereas the activity data for the agricultural sectors originate mainly from FAO (2014) (Internet: http://faostat3.fao.org/faostat-gateway/go/to/download/Q/*/E). Additional information can be found in Janssens-Maenhout et al., (ESSD, 2017).
Conditions of emission data use and code of conduct Users of the data are obliged to acknowledge the source of the data with a reference to the EDGARv4.3.2 website (http://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/overview.php?v=432&SECURE=123) and to the DOI (https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2904/JRC_DATASET_EDGAR) and to the following scientific publication: Janssens-Maenhout, G., Crippa, M., Guizzardi, D., Muntean, M., Schaaf, E., Dentener, F., Bergamaschi, P., Pagliari, V., Olivier, J. G. J., Peters, J. A. H. W., van Aardenne, J. A., Monni, S., Doering, U., and Petrescu, A. M. R.: Global Atlas of the three major Greenhouse Gas Emissions for the period 1970-2012, Earth System Science Data, essd-2017-79, submitted, 2017. Co-authorship and/or involvement in scientific publications using these data are very much appreciated. User’s comments and requests can be sent via email to the authors.
For each substance, emissions timeseries (1970-2012) by sector and country are provided in an overview table (.xls).
Notes:
Emission country totals are expressed in kton substance / year.
The IPCC 1996 code is used for specification of the sectors.
CO2_excl_short-cycle_org_C
CO2_org_short-cycle_C
For each substance annual gridmaps (1970-2012) are provided.
Notes:
Emission gridmaps are expressed in ton substance / 0.1degree x 0.1degree / year for the .txt files and in kg substance /m2 /s for the .nc files.
For each sector annual gridmaps (1970-2012) are provided for all substances.
For each sector monthly gridmaps (2010) are provided for all substances.
Notes:
Emission gridmaps are expressed in ton substance / 0.1degree x 0.1degree / year for annual .txt files and in kg substance /m2 /s for all the .nc files.
The IPCC 1996 code is used for specification of the sectors.
1A1b+1A1c+1A5b1+1B1b+1B2a5+1B2a6+1B2b5+2C1b
Oil refineries and Transformation industry
CH4, CO2_excl_short-cycle_org_C, CO2_org_short-cycle_C, N2O,
1A3c+1A3e
Railways, pipelines, off-road transport
CH4, CO2_excl_short-cycle_org_C, CO2_org_short-cycle_C, N2O,
Janssens-Maenhout, G., Crippa, M., Guizzardi, D., Muntean, M., Schaaf, E., Dentener, F., Bergamaschi, P., Pagliari, V., Olivier, J. G. J., Peters, J. A. H. W., van Aardenne, J. A., Monni, S., Doering, U., and Petrescu, A. M. R.: Global Atlas of the three major Greenhouse Gas Emissions for the period 1970-2012, Earth System Science Data, essd-2017-79, submitted, 2017.