RETRO Emissions Inventory

Within the RETRO project, global gridded data sets for anthropogenic and vegetation fire emissions of several trace gases were generated, covering the period from 1960 to 2000 with monthly time resolution. Anthropogenic emissions in the RETRO inventory are derived from the TNO database and the VERITAS inventory of international ship traffic emissions. Vegetation fire emissions were constructed from a large variety of sources with the objective to provide a reasonable estimate of emissions including their seasonal and interannual variability in the major burning regions of the world.