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Title: Estimates of Monthly CO2 Emissions and Associated 13C/12C Values from Fossil-Fuel Consumption in the U.S.A. (1981-2003)

Abstract

The data from which these carbon-emissions estimates were derived are values of fuel consumed: in billions of cubic feet, for natural gas; in millions of barrels, for petroleum products; and in thousands of short tons, for coal. The resulting emissions estimates are expressed as teragrams of carbon. A teragram is 1012 grams, or 106 metric tons. To convert from carbon to carbon dioxide, multiply by 44/12 (=3.67). Data are available for over 30 different petroleum products, with the exact breakdown varying somewhat from year to year. These products have been treated separately here until the final step of the estimation, at which time CO2 emissions were summed and attributed to liquid petroleum products. These fuel-consumption data are available from the Energy Information Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy. They are published in the Monthly Energy Review, and are available electronically from the Energy Information Administration.For access to the data files, click this link to the CDIAC data transition website: http://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/trends/emis_mon/emis_mon_co2.html

Authors:
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  1. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
Publication Date:
Other Number(s):
osti:1393822; doi:10.3334/CDIAC/FFE.001; cdiac:doi 10.3334/CDIAC/ffe.001
Research Org.:
Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE) (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
U.S. DOE > Office of Science (SC) > Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Keywords:
monthly estimates; oxidation; natural gas; fossil-fuel CO2 emissions; United States; Date; Year; Gas; Coal ; Oil; Total; delta C-13; month
OSTI Identifier:
1393822
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/ffe.001

Citation Formats

Blasing, T. J., Broniak, C., and Marland, G. H. Estimates of Monthly CO2 Emissions and Associated 13C/12C Values from Fossil-Fuel Consumption in the U.S.A. (1981-2003). United States: N. p., 2004. Web. doi:10.3334/CDIAC/ffe.001.
Blasing, T. J., Broniak, C., & Marland, G. H. Estimates of Monthly CO2 Emissions and Associated 13C/12C Values from Fossil-Fuel Consumption in the U.S.A. (1981-2003). United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/ffe.001
Blasing, T. J., Broniak, C., and Marland, G. H. 2004. "Estimates of Monthly CO2 Emissions and Associated 13C/12C Values from Fossil-Fuel Consumption in the U.S.A. (1981-2003)". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/ffe.001. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1393822. Pub date:Wed Jul 14 00:00:00 EDT 2004
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title = {Estimates of Monthly CO2 Emissions and Associated 13C/12C Values from Fossil-Fuel Consumption in the U.S.A. (1981-2003)},
author = {Blasing, T. J. and Broniak, C. and Marland, G. H.},
abstractNote = {The data from which these carbon-emissions estimates were derived are values of fuel consumed: in billions of cubic feet, for natural gas; in millions of barrels, for petroleum products; and in thousands of short tons, for coal. The resulting emissions estimates are expressed as teragrams of carbon. A teragram is 1012 grams, or 106 metric tons. To convert from carbon to carbon dioxide, multiply by 44/12 (=3.67). Data are available for over 30 different petroleum products, with the exact breakdown varying somewhat from year to year. These products have been treated separately here until the final step of the estimation, at which time CO2 emissions were summed and attributed to liquid petroleum products. These fuel-consumption data are available from the Energy Information Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy. They are published in the Monthly Energy Review, and are available electronically from the Energy Information Administration.For access to the data files, click this link to the CDIAC data transition website: http://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/trends/emis_mon/emis_mon_co2.html},
doi = {10.3334/CDIAC/ffe.001},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {2004},
month = {7}
}

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