Black Carbon Emission Data Base for Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Studies from the Global Emissions Inventory Activity (GEIA)

The focus of GEIA is to make global emissions available on a one degree grid. A global data base of black carbon emissions to the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion has been compiled for atmospheric chemistry and climate studies.

The data base is on a 1 x 1 degree latitude/longitude grid and is based on the work of Matthews (1983), Lerner et al. (1988), and Dignon (1992). The original work of Penner et al. (1993) provides the emissions inventory data on a 5 x 5 degree grid. Units of emission yield a global total of 12.6 TgC/y and are given as the mass in metric tons of carbon for each 1 x 1 degree grid cell.