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Emissions over Africa

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Nick1967

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Can any-one recommend a good source for recent (2019-ish) anthropogenic emissions of aerosol and gases over Africa, for use in WRF-Chem?

thanks,
Nick
 
Hi Nick,

I would recommend either EDGAR (https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset_ap50#intro) or ECLIPSE (https://iiasa.ac.at/web/home/research/researchPrograms/air/ECLIPSEv5.html) as a starting place, and processed using HERMES (https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/12/1885/2019/). There may be other inventories that are higher-resolution, more recent though.

Jordan
 
Hi Jordan,

Thanks for your suggestions. I was of course aware of EDGAR. HERMES looks pretty nifty. For Africa specific emissions I have recently found this: https://www.imk-tro.kit.edu/10052.php (DACCIWA dataset)

Nick
 
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