Summary of anthropogenic mercury emission inventories

Streets: Streets2019_Hg.ncAnnual (2000-2010) emissions of Hg0, Hg2, Hgp, from all sectors. Years 2001-2009 are a linear interpolation of years 2000 and 2010. See Streets et al. (2019) and http://geoschemdata.wustl.edu/ExtData/HEMCO/MERCURY/v2020-07/Streets/ for more details.References: D.G. Streets, H.M. Horowitz, Z. Lu, L. Levin, C.P. Thackray, E.M. Sunderland. 2019. Global and regional trends in mercury emissions and concentrations, 2010-2015. Atmospheric Environment. 201: 417-427.

EDGAR: EDGAR_totals_$YYYY_Hg.ncAnnual (1970-2012) EDGARv4tox2 emissions of Hg0, Hg2, Hgp, from all sectors. See Muntean et al. (2018), https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset_4tox2 and http://geoschemdata.wustl.edu/ExtData/HEMCO/MERCURY/v2020-07/EDGAR/ for more details.References: Muntean M, Janssens-Maenhout G, Song S, Giang A, Selin NE, Zhong H, Zhao Y, Olivier JG, Guizzardi D, Crippa M, Schaaf E. Evaluating EDGARv4.tox2 speciated mercury emissions ex-post scenarios and their impacts on modelled global and regional wet deposition patterns. Atmospheric Environment. 2018; 184:56-68.

AMAP: AMAP_comb.0.5x0.5.2010.nc, AMAP_inds.0.5x0.5.2010.nc and AMAP_intw.0.5x0.5.2010.ncAnnual (2010) AMAP/UNEP emissions of Hg0, Hg2, Hgp, from stationary combustion sources. See AMAP documentation, https://www.amap.no/mercury-emissions and https://doi.org/10.34894/SZ2KOI for more details.References: Technical Background Report to the Global Mercury Assessment 2013;AMAP/UNEP: Oslo, Norway and Geneva, Switzerland, 2013.http://www.amap.no/mercury-emissions/datasets

WHET: WHET_Hg0.geos.1x1.2010_final.nc, WHET_Hg2.geos.1x1.2010_final.nc, WHET_HgP.geos.1x1.2010_final.ncAnnual (2010) WHET emissions of Hg0, Hg2, Hgp, from all sectors. See Zhang et al. (2016) and http://geoschemdata.wustl.edu/ExtData/HEMCO/MERCURY/v2018-04/ for more details.References: Zhang, Y.;  Jacob, D. J.;  Horowitz, H. M.;  Chen, L.;  Amos, H. M.;  Krabbenhoft, D. P.;  Slemr, F.;  St. Louis, V. L.; Sunderland, E. M., Observed decrease in atmospheric mercury explained by global decline in anthropogenic emissions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016, 113 (3), 526-531.