Geographic patterns of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel burning, hydraulic cement production, and gas flaring on a one degree by one degree grid cell basis: 1950 to 1990
- ed.; Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States). Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
- Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK (United States). Inst. of Northern Engineering
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States). Environmental Sciences Div.
- Univ. of Victoria, British Columbia (Canada)
- Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
Data sets of one degree latitude by one degree longitude carbon dioxide (CO{sub 2}) emissions in units of thousand metric tons of carbon (C) per year from anthropogenic sources have been produced for 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980 and 1990. Detailed geographic information on CO{sub 2} emissions can be critical in understanding the pattern of the atmospheric and biospheric response to these emissions. Global, regional and national annual estimates for 1950 through 1992 were published previously. Those national, annual CO{sub 2} emission estimates were based on statistics on fossil-fuel burning, cement manufacturing and gas flaring in oil fields as well as energy production, consumption and trade data, using the methods of Marland and Rotty. The national annual estimates were combined with gridded one-degree data on political units and 1984 human populations to create the new gridded CO{sub 2} emission data sets. The same population distribution was used for each of the years as proxy for the emission distribution within each country. The implied assumption for that procedure was that per capita energy use and fuel mix is uniform over a political unit. The consequence of this first-order procedure is that the spatial changes observed over time are solely due to changes in national energy consumption and nation-based fuel mix. Increases in emissions over time are apparent for most areas.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-96OR22464
- OSTI ID:
- 666249
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/CDIAC--97; ON: DE98054728; BR: KP1204010
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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