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Evolution of anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions of air pollutants at global and regional scales during the 1980-2010 period

Claire Granier 1, 2, 3, 4 Bertrand Bessagnet 5 Tami Bond 6 Ariela d'Angiola 4 Hugo Denier van der Gon 7 Gregory J. Frost 1, 2 Angelika Heil 8 Johannes W. Kaiser 9 Stefan Kinne 3 Zbigniew Klimont 10 Silvia Kloster 3 Jean-François Lamarque 11 Catherine Liousse 12 Toshihiko Masui 13 Frederik Meleux 5 Aude Mieville 12 Toshimasa Ohara 13 Jean-Christophe Raut 4 Keywan Riahi 10 Martin G. Schultz 8 Steven J. Smith 14 Allison Thompson 14 John van Aardenne 15 Guido R. van der Werf 16 Detlef P. van Vuuren 17, 18
1 ESRL - NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
2 CIRES - Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
3 MPI-M - Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
4 TROPO - LATMOS
LATMOS - Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales
5 INERIS - Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risques
6 UIUC - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
7 TNO Built Environment and Geosciences
8 IKP - Institut für Kernphysik
9 ECMWF - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
10 IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis [Laxenburg]
11 NCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research [Boulder]
12 LAERO - Laboratoire d'aérologie
13 NIES - National Institute for Environmental Studies
14 PNNL - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
15 EEA - European Environment Agency
16 VU - Vrije universiteit = Free university of Amsterdam [Amsterdam]
17 PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
18 Utrecht University [Utrecht]
Abstract : Several different inventories of global and regional anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions are assessed for the 1980-2010 period. The species considered in this study are carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and black carbon. The inventories considered include the ACCMIP historical emissions developed in support of the simulations for the IPCC AR5 assessment. Emissions for 2005 and 2010 from the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) are also included. Large discrepancies between the global and regional emissions are identified, which shows that there is still no consensus on the best estimates for surface emissions of atmospheric compounds. At the global scale, anthropogenic emissions of CO, NOx and SO2 show the best agreement for most years, although agreement does not necessarily mean that uncertainty is low. The agreement is low for BC emissions, particularly in the period prior to 2000. The best consensus is for NOx emissions for all periods and all regions, except for China, where emissions in 1980 and 1990 need to be better defined. Emissions of CO need better quantification in the USA and India for all periods; in Central Europe, the evolution of emissions during the past two decades needs to be better determined. The agreement between the different SO2 emissions datasets is rather good for the USA, but better quantification is needed elsewhere, particularly for Central Europe, India and China. The comparisons performed in this study show that the use of RCP8.5 for the extension of the ACCMIP inventory beyond 2000 is reasonable, until more global or regional estimates become available. Concerning biomass burning emissions, most inventories agree within 50-80%, depending on the year and season. The large differences between biomass burning inventories are due to differences in the estimates of burned areas from the different available products, as well as in the amount of biomass burned.
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Claire Granier, Bertrand Bessagnet, Tami Bond, Ariela d'Angiola, Hugo Denier van der Gon, et al.. Evolution of anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions of air pollutants at global and regional scales during the 1980-2010 period. Climatic Change, Springer Verlag, 2011, 109 (1-2), pp.163-190. ⟨10.1007/s10584-011-0154-1⟩. ⟨hal-00637460⟩

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