Carbon Monoxide (CO) Emissions Inventory from the Global Emissions Inventory Activity (GEIA), IGBP/IGAC

Gridded data files are provided for the total of all anthropogenic sources and per source category for 1990 and 1995. EDGAR data comprise all anthropogenic sources, including international air traffic and international shipping: (a) fossil-fuel production, transmission, transformation (e.g. coke production, oil refineries) and combustion (F category) (b) biofuel production, transformation (charcoal production) and combustion (B category) (c) industrial production and consumption processes (including solvent use) (I category) (d) agricultural activities (L category) (e) biomass burning (L category) (f) waste handling (W category).

In EDGAR 3 also so-called fossil fuel fires are included (coal fires, oil fires in Kuwait in 1992). For natural sources we refer to GEIA datasets provided at "geiacenter.org".