Anthropogenic sulfur dioxide emissions: 1850-2005
Abstract
Sulfur aerosols impact human health, ecosystems, agriculture, and global and regional climate. A new annual estimate of anthropogenic global and regional sulfur dioxide emissions has been constructed spanning the period 1850 2005 using a bottom-up mass balance method, calibrated to country-level inventory data. Global emissions peaked in the early 1970s and decreased until 2000, with an increase in recent years due to increased emissions in China, international shipping, and developing countries in general. An uncertainty analysis was conducted including both random and systemic uncertainties. The overall global uncertainty in sulfur dioxide emissions is relatively small, but regional uncertainties ranged up to 30%. The largest contributors to uncertainty at present are emissions from China and international shipping. Emissions were distributed on a 0.5 grid by sector for use in coordinated climate model experiments.
- Authors:
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- Joint Global Change Research Institute, PNNL
- European Commission Joint Research Centre
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
- ORNL
- European Environment Agency, Kongens Nytorv 6, 1050 Copenhagen K, Denmark
- Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1019354
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal Name:
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 11; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1680--7324
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; AEROSOLS; AGRICULTURE; CHINA; CLIMATE MODELS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECOSYSTEMS; MASS BALANCE; SULFUR; SULFUR DIOXIDE
Citation Formats
Smith, S. J., Van Aardenne, J., Klimont, Z., Andres, Robert Joseph, Volke, A., and Delgado Arias, S. Anthropogenic sulfur dioxide emissions: 1850-2005. United States: N. p., 2011.
Web. doi:10.5194/acp-11-1101-2011.
Smith, S. J., Van Aardenne, J., Klimont, Z., Andres, Robert Joseph, Volke, A., & Delgado Arias, S. Anthropogenic sulfur dioxide emissions: 1850-2005. United States. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-1101-2011
Smith, S. J., Van Aardenne, J., Klimont, Z., Andres, Robert Joseph, Volke, A., and Delgado Arias, S. 2011.
"Anthropogenic sulfur dioxide emissions: 1850-2005". United States. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-1101-2011.
@article{osti_1019354,
title = {Anthropogenic sulfur dioxide emissions: 1850-2005},
author = {Smith, S. J. and Van Aardenne, J. and Klimont, Z. and Andres, Robert Joseph and Volke, A. and Delgado Arias, S},
abstractNote = {Sulfur aerosols impact human health, ecosystems, agriculture, and global and regional climate. A new annual estimate of anthropogenic global and regional sulfur dioxide emissions has been constructed spanning the period 1850 2005 using a bottom-up mass balance method, calibrated to country-level inventory data. Global emissions peaked in the early 1970s and decreased until 2000, with an increase in recent years due to increased emissions in China, international shipping, and developing countries in general. An uncertainty analysis was conducted including both random and systemic uncertainties. The overall global uncertainty in sulfur dioxide emissions is relatively small, but regional uncertainties ranged up to 30%. The largest contributors to uncertainty at present are emissions from China and international shipping. Emissions were distributed on a 0.5 grid by sector for use in coordinated climate model experiments.},
doi = {10.5194/acp-11-1101-2011},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1019354},
journal = {Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics},
issn = {1680--7324},
number = 3,
volume = 11,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2011},
month = {Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2011}
}