Inventory Collaborative 2016 beta Emissions Modeling Platform (based on NEI2014)

Inventory Collaborative 2016 beta Emissions Modeling Platform based on NEI2014 version 2. [Overview] The 2016 beta platform has been developed by the National Emissions Collaborative. Updates will be made to this platform prior to the release of the "2016 Version 1.0" platform. [Release Timeline] March 13, 2019: 2016 base year data, software, and scripts TBD: Future year projection year data [Description] In late 2017, a group of state, local, tribal, regional, and federal air planning agencies initiated a collaborative process to build a national emissions modeling platform (EMP) for simulating air quality in the U.S. The 2016beta EMP is the first product from the National Emissions Inventory Collaborative that includes a full suite of base year (2016) and future year inventories, ancillary emissions data, and scripts and software for preparing the emissions for air quality modeling. A coordination workgroup, ten sector workgroups, and a modeling workgroup were staffed by over 245 state and regional air agency, EPA, and Federal Land Manager employees. The work of the sector workgroups to build 2016 base year and future year inventories is documented in a series of sector-specific specification sheets below. These specification sheets detail the origin of the inventories and ancillary data used to simulate criteria pollutant, and in many cases hazardous air pollutant, emissions for the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The summary stacked bar plots below compare U.S. total criteria pollutant emissions for the 2016beta platform back to 2011 and 2014 base and future year emissions. [Download] Disclaimer: The 2016beta emissions inventories and ancillary data are draft data. The Collaborative intends to use the 2016beta platform to evaluate the emissions data and air quality modeling results derived from these data towards the development of a 2016 version 1 emissions modeling platform. Users of these data acknowledge that they are distributed as is, and that they have not been extensively evaluated by the Collaborative. The initial release of the 2016beta platform is for the year 2016 only. Click here to download it from the Intermountain West Data Warehouse. If you do not need a full modeling platform and are instead interested in only a subportion of the inventories or ancillary data, or in summary reports for specific sectors, you can find data of that nature at ftp://newftp.epa.gov/air/emismod/2016/beta/