Emissions Working Group

The purpose of this Working Group is to provide a forum to discuss current and new developments in GEOS-Chem associated with land-atmosphere and ocean-atmosphere sources, sinks, and fluxes of trace gases and aerosols.

All users interested in adding/updating the GEOS-Chem emissions inventories are encouraged to subscribe to the emissions email list (click on the link in the contact information section below).

Contact Information

Emissions and Deposition Working Group Co-Chairs	Emily Fischer Jintai Lin Eloïse Marais Dylan Millet
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Current Projects (please add yours!)

User Group	Description	Contact Person	Date Added
Birmingham, UK/NCAR	Inefficient combustion emissions in Africa	Eloise Marais	12 April 2017
University of Minnesota	VOC emissions in India	Sree Chaliyakunnel	31 August 2017
Harvard	Mechanistic Lightning Parameterization	Lee Murray
JPL	Comparison of adjoint and mass balance for NOx emissions	Changsub Shim
U. East Anglia	COS Emissions	Parvadha Suntharalingam
U. Edinburgh	Regional methane sources using surface in situ and GOSAT and IASI satellite observations and an ensemble Kalman filter	Annemarie Fraser
U. Edinburgh	Quantifying the impact of boreal biomass burning emissions on tropospheric oxidant chemistry	Mark Parrington
U. Toronto / Env Canada	CO2 sources and sinks (fossil fuels including shipping/aviation, biosphere, ocean, etc.)	Ray Nassar
U. Toronto	Adjoint analysis of CO sources from MOPITT	Zhe Jiang
Peking University	Top-down constraints on Asia VOCs	May Fu
Tsinghua University	Bottom-up/top-down anthropogenic inventory over East Asia	Qiang Zhang
CU Boulder	Top-down constraints on NH3	Juliet Zhu
US EPA	Top-down constraints on NO2	Havala Pye
U. Nebraska Lincoln	Top-down constraints on aerosols over Asia using MODIS	Richard Zu
UW	Snow NOx source in Greenland and Antarctica	Becky Alexander	07 May 2015
MIT	Investigating ozone dry deposition to vegetation	Sam Silva	08 May 2017

Top-down Findings Germane to GEOS-Chem Inventories (please add yours!)

Science findings from top-down studies that have implications for inventories used in GEOS-Chem (e.g., an inferred high or low bias or other such issue) can be compiled in this table. Please add any findings, either from your group or from other groups, that you feel the GEOS-Chem community should be aware of in using these inventories.

--Dbm (talk) 00:57, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Ongoing Developments (please add yours!)

Here is the list of updates that are slated to be added to GEOS-Chem in the next few releases:

Update	Authors	Planned release
HEMCO emissions component	Christoph Keller (Harvard)	Implemented into GEOS-Chem v10-01, updated as needed
MEGAN biogenic emissions	Michael Barkley (Leicester)	Updates ongoing
Australian anthropogenic emissions	Jenny Fisher (Wollongong)	Updates ongoing

--Bob Y. 18:55, 14 January 2015 (EST)

Recent Updates

We have added the following updates pertaining to emissions and deposition to recent GEOS-Chem versions:

Version	Released	Description	Contact
v11-01	Jan 2017	Update HEMCO to version 2.0.003	Christoph Keller (NASA GSFC)
v11-01	Jan 2017	0.1° x 0.1° CAC emissions	Aaron van Donkelaar (Dalhousie)
v11-01	Jan 2017	Replace RETRO C3H8 emissions with emissions from Xiao et al. (2008)	Emily Fischer (CSU) Zitely Tzompa (CSU)
v11-01	Jan 2017	Add option for QFED & FINN emissions in the Hg simulations	Jenny Fisher (Wollongong)
v11-01	Jan 2017	CO2 direct effect on isoprene emissions	Amos Tai (CUHK)
v11-01	Jan 2017	Update biomass burning emissions to GFED4.1, includes: Daily and diurnal factors	Prasad Kasibhatla (Duke) Christoph Keller (Harvard)
v10-01	Jun 2015	The HEMCO emissions component now handles all GEOS-Chem emissions.	Christoph Keller (Harvard) GCST
v10-01	Jun 2015	Daily anthropogenic emissions broken down by sector from the EPA NEI2008 inventory (via HEMCO)	Katie Travis (Harvard)
v10-01	Jun 2015	FINNv1 biomass burning emissions (via HEMCO)	Jenny Fisher (Wollongong) Min Huang (JPL)
v10-01	Jun 2015	MEGAN v2.1 plus Guenther 2012 biogenic emissions (via HEMCO)	Dylan Millet (Minnesota)
v9-02	Mar 2014	New soil NOx emission module	Rynda Hudman Kay (EPA) Neil Moore (formerly of Dalhousie) Bram Maasakkers (Harvard)
v9-02	Mar 2014	EPA/NEI05 North American Hg emissions	Yanxu Zhang (U. Washington) Lyatt Jaeglé (U. Washington)
v9-02	Mar 2014	Hg anthropogenic emissions options for the year 2006 or 2050 following SRES scenarios A1B, A2, B1, and B2 from Streets et al. 2009.	Bess Corbitt (Harvard)
v9-02	Mar 2014	Updated NH3 seasonal scaling factors over the US	Lin Zhang (PKU)
v9-02	Mar 2014	Updated Canadian NH3 inventory	Wai-Ho Lo (Dalhousie)
v9-02	Mar 2014	Bug in wet deposition Henry's constant	Fabien Paulot (Harvard)
v9-02	Mar 2014	Fix diurnal NOx scale factors and fix double counting of biofuels over Mexico, Canada, and Europe	Christoph Keller (Harvard)
v9-02	Mar 2014	Correct bugs in ship emissions w/ non-local PBL mixing	Chris Holmes (UC Irvine)
v9-02	Mar 2014	Bug fixes in day-of-week computation	GEOS-Chem Support Team
v9-02	Mar 2014	RCP future emission scenarios	Chris Holmes (UC Irvine)
v9-02	Mar 2014	EDGAR v4.2 emissions for CH4 simulation	Kevin Wecht (Harvard)
v9-02	Mar 2014	Update anthropogenic scale factors through 2010	Aaron van Donkelaar (Dalhoisie)
v9-02	Mar 2014	Update GFED3 emissions to 2011	Prasad Kasibhatla (Duke)
v9-02	Mar 2014	AEIC aircraft emissions inventory	Sebastian Eastham (MIT) Steven Barrett (MIT)
v9-02	Mar 2014	Fix molecular weights of RIP and IEPOX used in drydep_mod.F	GEOS-Chem Support Team
v9-02	Mar 2014	Bug fix for NEI2005 SO4 emissions in sulfate_mod.F	Jenny Fisher (U. Wollongong)
v9-01-03	Sep 2012	Improved acetone simulation	Emily Fischer (Harvard)
v9-01-03	Sep 2012	Complete shift of biogenic VOC emissions from GEIA to MEGAN; retire GEIA	Dylan Millet
v9-01-03	Sep 2012	OVOC's dry deposition	Jingqiu Mao (NOAA/GFDL)
v9-01-03	Sep 2012	Historical emission inventories of SO2, NOx, BC, and POA	Eric Leibensperger (MIT)
v9-01-03	Sep 2012	PARANOX model for evolution of ship exhaust plumes	Geert Vinken (Eindhoven)
v9-01-03	Sep 2012	Improved snow scavenging and washout parameterization	Qiaoqiao Wang (Harvard)
v9-01-03	Sep 2012	Constraining the lightning NOx source with satellite data	Lee Murray (Harvard)
v9-01-03	Sep 2012	MAP_A2A algorithm to regrid emissions on the fly	Prasad Kasibhatla (Duke) Matt Cooper (Dalhousie)
v9-01-03	Sep 2012	Anthropogenic NOx scaling factors from OMI	Lok Lamsal (NASA) Matt Cooper (Dalhousie)
v9-01-02	Nov 2011	GEIA 2005 Hg emissions	Bess Corbitt (Harvard) Noelle Selin (MIT)
v9-01-02	Nov 2011	Bug fix for biofuel emissions when using EPA/NEI05	GEOS-Chem Support Team
v9-01-02	Nov 2011	Update to GFED3 biomass burning	Prasad Kasibhatla (Duke)
v9-01-02	Nov 2011	Anthropogenic VOCs	Dylan Millet (UMN)
v9-01-02	Nov 2011	Added seasonality to Streets NH3 emissions over Asia	Jenny Fisher (Harvard)
v9-01-01	May 2011	Updated Hg simulation	Bess Corbitt (Harvard) Jenny Fisher (Harvard) Helen Amos (Harvard)
v9-01-01	May 2011	Bug fix for biofuel emissions when using EPA/NEI05	GEOS-Chem Support Team
v9-01-01	May 2011	Bug fixes for ship emissions and EMEP ship emissions mask file	GEOS-Chem Support Team
v9-01-01	May 2011	Updated lightning parameterization and fix for cloud-top-height algorithm	L. Murray, Harvard
v9-01-01	May 2011	Updated volcanic SO2 emissions from Aerocom	J. Fisher (Harvard)
v9-01-01	May 2011	Updated wet scavenging and convective updraft scavenging algorithms and Allow both washout and rainout when precipitation forms	H. Amos (Harvard) Bess Corbitt (Harvard) Q. Wang (Harvard)
v8-03-02	Sep 2010	Updated CO2 Emissions	R. Nassar, Environment Canada
v8-03-01	May 2010	Extension of annual anthropogenic scale factors to 2006	A. van Donkelaar, Dalhousie
v8-03-01	May 2010	EMEP emissions extended to 2007 and seasonality extended to SOx, CO, and NH3	A. van Donkelaar, Dalhousie
v8-03-01	May 2010	Emissions for Nested NA/EU Simulations Nested Grid	A. van Donkelaar, Dalhousie
v8-03-01	May 2010	Emissions for Global 1 x 1.25 simulation capability	L. Lamsal, Dalhousie
v8-03-01	May 2010	Speciated biogenic emissions from MEGAN v2.1 now used in SOA code	H. Pye, Caltech
v8-02-04	Feb 2010	EPA/NEI2005 regional emissions inventory for North America	P. Le Sager (formerly Harvard), A. van Donkelaar (Dalhousie)
v8-02-04	Feb 2010	MEGAN v2.1 biogenic emissions	Mike Barkley, Edinburgh
v8-02-04	Feb 2010	Updated inventory of volcanic SO2 emissions from AeroCom	Jenny Fisher, Harvard
v8-02-03	Oct 2009	ICOADS ship emissions	Chulkyu Lee, Dalhousie
v8-02-03	Oct 2009	Updated OTD/LIS redistribution factors for GEOS-5	Lee Murray, Harvard
v8-02-02	Jun 2009	BOND inventory for BC and OC with monthly variations	Eric Leibensperger, Harvard

--Melissa Sulprizio 10:43, 17 January 2014 (EST)

Recommended Default Emission Inventories

Emission inventories for standard full chemistry runs. Entries in black are the recommended default emission inventories, entries in RED are alternate options, and entries in GREEN are inventories slated for inclusion in GEOS-Chem in the future. Regional inventories overwrite global inventories for particular locations (indicated in the table).

Year(s) show years for which the inventory is provided. In many cases annual scale factors are applied to extend the inventory to the past or present.

Please see our HEMCO data directories wiki page for information about how to download data files for each of the currently-available inventories.

Region	HEMCO ExtName	Description	Resolution	Year(s)	Species	References & Notes
Anthropogenic (Fossil, Biofuel and Process) Emission Inventories
Global	EDGAR	EDGAR v4.2 anthropogenic + biofuel	0.1° x 0.1°, monthly	1970-2008	NOx, SO2, SO4, CO, NH3	http://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/overview.php?v=42
Global	BOND	BOND biofuel + anthropogenic BC + OC emissions	1° x 1°, monthly	2000	BC and OC	Bond et al. (2007)
Global	RETRO	RETRO anthropogenic + biofuel	0.5° x 0.5°, monthly	2000	NMVOCs except C2H6 and C3H8	ftp://ftp.retro.enes.org/pub/emissions/aggregated/anthro/0.5x0.5/2000/
Global	XIAO	Fossil fuel + biofuel C2H6 and C3H8	1° x 1°, annual	1985	C2H6 and C3H8	Xiao et al. (2008)
Global	TZOMPA	Fossil fuel + biofuel C2H6	2° x 2.5°, annual	2010	C2H6	Tzompa-Sosa et al. (2017)
Global	TRASH	Trash burning (not in other inventories)	0.1° x 0.1°, annual	2010	NOx, SO2, SO4, CO, NH3, BC, OC, NMVOCs	Wiedinmyer et al. (2014)
Global	SHIP	ICOADS ship emissions	1° x 1°, monthly	2002	NOx, SO2, CO	Wang et al. (2008).
Global	AEIC	Aircraft emissions	1° x 1°, annual	2005	NOx, SO2, CO, NMVOCs, BC, OC	Stettler et al. (2011)
Global	ParaNOx	Ship plume O3 and HNO3 formation	N.A.	N.A.	O3, HNO3	Vinken et al. (2011) with updates from Holmes et al. (2014)
Global	RCP_3PD, RCP_45, RCP_60, RCP_85	RCP scenarios 3PD, 4.5, 6.0, 8.5	0.5° x 0.5°, annual	2005, 2010-2100 in 10 year increments	NOx, SO2, CO, NMVOCs, BC, OC, NH3	http://tntcat.iiasa.ac.at:8787/RcpDb/dsd?Action=htmlpage&page=welcome
Global	HTAP	HTAP v2 inventory	0.1° x 0.1°, annual	2008, 2010	NOx, SO2, CO, NMVOCs, BC, OC, NH3	http://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/htap_v2/index.php?SECURE=123
Asia	MIX	MIX v1.1 emission inventory for Asia	0.25° x 0.25°, monthly	2008, 2010	NOx, SO2, CO, BC, OC, NMVOCs, NH3	http://mix.greenresource.cn/
Asia	STREETS	Streets regional inventory for China and SE Asia	1° x 1°, monthly	2000, 2006	NOx, SO2, CO, NMVOCs, BC, OC, NH3	Zhang et al. (2009). NH3 only available for 2000.
China	MEIC	MEIC inventory for China	0.25° x 0.25°, monthly	2008, 2010	NOx, SO2, CO, NMVOCs, NH3	http://www.meicmodel.org/.
Africa	DICE-Africa	Non-industrial anthropogenic emissions for Africa	0.1° x 0.1°, annual	2006, 2013	NOx, SO2, CO, NMVOCs, NH3, BC, OC	Marais and Wiedinmyer (2016)
US	NEI2011	US EPA NEI-2011 emission inventory	0.1° x 0.1°, monthly & hourly	2011	NOx, SO2, CO, NMVOCs, NH3, BC, OC	http://www.epa.gov/ttnchie1/net/2011inventory.html
Canada	CAC	CAC inventory for Canada	0.1° x 0.1°, annual	2005	NOx, SO2, CO, NH3	http://www.ec.gc.ca/pdb/cac/cac_home_e.cfm
Mexico	BRAVO	BRAVO inventory for Mexico	1° x 1°, annual	1999	NOx, SO2, CO	Kuhns et al., (2003)
Europe	EMEP	EMEP inventory for Europe	1° x 1°, monthly	1980,1985-2000	NOx, SO2, CO	Auvray and Bey (2005)
Biomass Burning (Open Fires) Emission Inventories
Global	GFED4	GFED4 biomass burning inventory	0.25° x 0.25°, monthly, daily, every 3 hours	1997-2014	NOx, SO2, CO, NMVOCs, NH3, BC, OC	http://www.globalfiredata.org, Giglio et al. (2013)
Global	QFED2	QFED2 biomass burning emissions	0.1° x 0.1°, daily	2000-2014	NOx, SO2, CO, NMVOCs, NH3, BC, OC	Darmenov and da Silva (2015)
Global	FINN	FINN v1.5 biomass burning emissions	0.25° x 0.25°, monthly, daily	2002-2014	NOx, SO2, CO, NMVOCs, NH3, BC, OC	Wiedinmyer et al. (2016)
Global	BOND	BOND biomass burning BC + OC emissions	1° x 1°, monthly	2000	BC, OC	Bond et al. (2007)
Terrestrial Biogenic Emission Inventories (online calculation)
Global	MEGAN	MEGAN v2.1 biogenic emissions	Horizontal and temporal resolution of the model	Year of the model	ISOP, monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes, MOH, ACET, ETOH, CH2O, ALD2, HCOOH, C2H4, TOLU, PRPE	Guenther et al. (2012)
Global	SeaFlux	Air-sea exchange fluxes	Horizontal and temporal resolution of the model	Year of the model	DMS, ACET	Lana et al. (2011)
Global	SeaFlux	Air-sea exchange fluxes	Horizontal and emission resolution of the model	Year of the model	SALA, SALC	Jaeglé et al. (2011)
Other Natural/Semi-Natural Emission Inventories (online calculation)
Global	SoilNOx	Emission of NOx from soils and fertiliser use	Horizontal and temporal resolution of the model	Year of the model	NO	Hudman et al. (2012)
Global	LightNOx	NOx from lightning	Horizontal and temporal resolution of the model	Year of the model	NO	Murray et al. (2012)
Global	VOLCANO	Volcanic SO2 emissions	1° x 1°, monthly	1979-2009	SO2	Fisher et al. (2011)
Global	LIANG_BROMOCARB	Very short-lived bromocarbon emissions	2° x 2.5°, annual	2000	CHBr3, CH2Br2	Liang et al. (2010)
Global	DustDead	DEAD Dust emissions scheme	2° x 2.5°, 4° x 5°, model time resolution	Year of model	DST1-4	Zender et al. (2003)
Global	DustGinoux	Ginoux dust emissions scheme	4° x 5°, model time resolution	Year of model	DST1-4	Ginoux et al. (2001)
Global	MASAGE	MASAGE non-agricultural NH3 emissions	0.5° x 0.5°, monthly?	2005-2008	NH3	Paulot et al. (2013)
Arctic	none yet	Arctic seabird emissions of NH3	0.1° x 0.1°, monthly?	2011	NH3	Croft et al. (2016)

References

Auvray and Bey, Long-range transport to Europe: Seasonal variations and implications for the European ozone budget, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2004JD005503, 2005.

Bond et al., Historical emissions of black and organic carbon aerosol from energy-related combustion, 1850–2000, Global Biogeochem. Cy., doi:10.1029/2006GB002840, 2007.

Croft et al., Contribution of Arctic seabird-colony ammonia to atmospheric particles and cloud-albedo radiative effect, Nature Communications, doi:10.1038/ncomms13444, 2016.

Darmenov and da Silva, The Quick Fire Emissions Dataset (QFED): Documentation of versions 2.1, 2.2 and 2.4, R. D. Koster (Ed.), Vol. 38, USA, 2015.

Fisher et al., Sources, distribution, and acidity of sulfate–ammonium aerosol in the Arctic in winter–spring, Atmos. Environ., doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.08.030, 2011.

Giglio et al., Analysis of daily, monthly, and annual burned area using the fourth-generation global fire emissions database (GFED4), J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1002/jgrg.20042, 2013.

Ginoux et al., Sources and distributions of dust aerosols simulated with the GOCART model, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2000JD000053, 2001.

Guenther et al., The Model of Emissions of Gases and Aerosols from Nature version 2.1 (MEGAN2.1): an extended and updated framework for modeling biogenic emissions, Geosci. Model Dev., doi:10.5194/gmd-5-1471-2012, 2012.

Holmes et al., The climate impact of ship NO_x emissions: an improved estimate accounting for plume chemistry, Atmos. Chem. Phys., doi:10.5194/acp-14-6801-2014, 2014.

Hudman et al., Steps towards a mechanistic model of global soil nitric oxide emissions: implementation and space based-constraints, Atmos. Chem. Phys., doi:10.5194/acp-12-7779-2012, 2012.

Jaeglé et al., Global distribution of sea salt aerosols: new constraints from in situ and remote sensing observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., doi:10.5194/acp-11-3137-2011, 2011.

Kuhns et al., Big Bend Regional Aerosol and Visibility Observational (BRAVO) Study Emissions Inventory, DRI, Las Vegas, NV, 2003.

Lana et al., An updated climatology of surface dimethlysulfide concentrations and emission fluxes in the global ocean, Global Biogeochem. Cy., doi:10.1029/2010GB003850, 2011.

Liang et al., Finding the missing stratospheric Br_y: a global modeling study of CHBr₃ and CH₂Br₂, Atmos. Chem. Phys., doi:10.5194/acp-10-2269-2010, 2010.

Marais and Wiedinmyer, Air Quality Impact of Diffuse and Inefficient Combustion Emissions in Africa (DICE-Africa), Environ. Sci. Technol., doi:10.1021/acs.est.6b02602, 2016.

Murray et al., Optimized regional and interannual variability of lightning in a global chemical transport model constrained by LIS/OTD satellite data, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2012JD017934, 2012.

Paulot et al., Ammonia emissions in the United States, European Union, and China derived by high-resolution inversion of ammonium wet deposition data: Interpretation with a new agricultural emissions inventory (MASAGE_NH3), J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1002/2013JD021130, 2014.

Stettler et al., Air quality and public health impacts of UK airports. Part I: Emissions, Atmos. Environ., doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.07.012, 2011.

Tzompa-Sosa et al., in prep, 2017.

Vinken et al., Accounting for non-linear chemistry of ship plumes in the GEOS-Chem global chemistry transport model, Atmos. Chem. Phys., doi:10.5194/acp-11-11707-2011, 2011.

Wang et al., Improving Spatial Representation of Global Ship Emissions Inventories, doi:10.1021/es0700799, 2008.

Wiedinmyer et al., The Fire INventory from NCAR (FINN): a high resolution global model to estimate the emissions from open burning, Geosci. Model Dev., doi:10.5194/gmd-4-625-2011, 2011.

Wiedinmyer et al., Global Emissions of Trace Gases, Particulate Matter, and Hazardous Air Pollutants from Open Burning of Domestic Waste, Environ. Sci. Technol., doi:10.1021/es502250z, 2014.

Xiao et al., Global budget of ethane and regional constraints on U.S. sources, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2007JD009415, 2008.

Zhang et al., Asian emissions in 2006 for the NASA INTEX-B mission, Atmos. Chem. Phys., doi:10.5194/acp-9-5131-2009, 2009.

Discussions

1. Scale factors for anthropogenic emissions
2. GEIA Anthropogenic Scaling Factors
3. Biogenic Parameter Input Sources
4. Historical and Future Emissions wiki page