Historical (1850–2000) gridded anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions of reactive gases and aerosols: methodology and application

• Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
• Main Authors: Lamarque, J.-F., Bond, T. C., Eyring, V., Granier, Claire, Heil, A., Klimont, Z., Lee, D., Liousse, C., Mieville, Aude, Owen, B., Schultz, M. G., Shindell, D., Smith, S. J., Stehfest, E., Van Aardenne, J., Cooper, O. R., Kainuma, M., Mahowald, N., Mcconnell, J. R., Naik, V., Riahi, K., Van Vuuren, D. P.
• Other Authors: National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder (NCAR), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, University of Illinois System-University of Illinois System, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), TROPO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft = Helmholtz Association, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Laxenburg (IIASA), Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), Laboratoire d'aérologie (LAERO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)-University of Maryland College Park, University of Maryland System-University of Maryland System, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, European Commission - Joint Research Centre Ispra (JRC), National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), European Project: 212095,EC:FP7:ENV,FP7-ENV-2007-1,CITYZEN(2008)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2010
• Subjects: [SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society; [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes; Greenland; Mace; ice core
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00458149; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00458149/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00458149/file/acp-10-7017-2010.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-10-7017-2010

International audience We present and discuss a new dataset of gridded emissions covering the historical period (1850–2000) in decadal increments at a horizontal resolution of 0.5° in latitude and longitude. The primary purpose of this inventory is to provide consistent gridded emissions of reactive gases and aerosols for use in chemistry model simulations needed by climate models for the Climate Model Intercomparison Program #5 (CMIP5) in support of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). Our best estimate for the year 2000 inventory represents a combination of existing regional and global inventories to capture the best information available at this point; 40 regions and 12 sectors are used to combine the various sources. The historical reconstruction of each emitted compound, for each region and sector, is then forced to agree with our 2000 estimate, ensuring continuity between past and 2000 emissions. Simulations from two chemistry-climate models is used to test the ability of the emission dataset described here to capture long-term changes in atmospheric ozone, carbon monoxide and aerosol distributions. The simulated long-term change in the Northern mid-latitudes surface and mid-troposphere ozone is not quite as rapid as observed. However, stations outside this latitude band show much better agreement in both present-day and long-term trend. The model simulations indicate that the concentration of carbon monoxide is underestimated at the Mace Head station; however, the long-term trend over the limited observational period seems to be reasonably well captured. The simulated sulfate and black carbon deposition over Greenland is in very good agreement with the ice-core observations spanning the simulation period. Finally, aerosol optical depth and additional aerosol diagnostics are shown to be in good agreement with previously published estimates and observations.