Emissions overview

Here is a quick overview of the emissions inventories that are currently available in GEOS-Chem.

Anthropogenic emissions

See our anthropogenic emissions wiki page for details about all global and regional inventories, or download the following documentation:

• Description of anthropogenic emissions inventories in GEOS-Chem v8-02-03
• Description of anthropogenic emissions inventories in GEOS-Chem v8-01-04
• Table of available anthropogenic emissions inventories for use w/ GEOS-Chem (pre-v8)

By default, GEOS-Chem uses the GEIA inventory with 10 gas-phase species:

Species	Name	Equivalent # of carbons
NOx	Odd nitrogen = NO2 + NO + NO3 + HNO2
CO	Carbon monoxide
PRPE	>= C3 Alkanes	3
C3H8	Propane	3
ALK4	>= C4 Alkenes	4
C2H6	Ethane	2
ACET	Acetone	3
MEK	Methyl Ethyl Ketone	4
ALD2	Acetaldehyde	3
CH2O	Formaldehyde

and 2 carbon aerosol species from Bond et al:

Species	Name	Equivalent # of carbons
BC	Black Carbon	1
OC	Organic Carbon	1

Biofuel emissions

GEOS-Chem emits the same 12 species as for anthropogenic emissions listed above.

These are overwritten by Biofuel emissions and/or STREETS 2006 if these inventory are used for anthropogenic emissions for USA and/or SE-Asia.

Biogenic emissions

By default, GEOS-Chem emits the following species from the GEIA biogenic inventory:

Species	Name	Generic formula	Equivalent # of carbons
ISOP	Isoprene	C5H8	5
MONOT	Monoterpenes	C10H16	10
MBO	Methyl Butenol	C5H10O	5
ACET	Acetone	CH3COCH3	3
ALK4 (scaled from ISOP)	>=C4 alkenes		4

The following species may be overwritten with the MEGAN inventory:

1. Isoprene
2. Monoterpenes
3. Methyl Butenol

Please see our MEGAN biogenic emissions wiki page for more information.

Please see our Isoprene Emission Estimates in the Literature page for Isoprene Emission Estimates in the literature.

Biomass burning

By default GEOS-Chem uses 15 biomass burning species from Duncan et al:

1. NOx
2. CO
3. ALK4
4. ACET
5. MEK
6. ALD2
7. PRPE
8. C3H8
9. CH2O
10. C2H6
11. SO2
12. NH3
13. BC
14. OC
15. CO2 (NOTE: for offline simulations only!)

Most of these are also anthropogenic emissions species.

All of these species can be overwritten by GFED2 monthly, 8-days, or 3hr biomass emissions.

--Phs and Bmy 10:14, 18 September 2009 (EDT)

Soil NOX emissions

Please see our Soil NOx emissions wiki page for more information.

--Bob Y. 13:50, 19 February 2010 (EST)

Volcanic emissions

Please see our Volcanic SO2 emissions from Aerocom wiki page.

--Bob Y. 09:52, 16 February 2010 (EST)