EU MarcoPolo project | SO2 emission inventory over China

The aposteriori SO2 emissions for year 2014, in the domain from 102°E to 132°E and from 15°N to 55°N, in a 0.25°x0.25° spatial resolution and monthly temporal resolution, have been provided to the MarcoPolo project and can be found at http://users.auth.gr/mariliza/MarcoPolo/SO2_EmissionInventory/. For details on the creation of the inventory refer to http://users.auth.gr/mariliza/MarcoPolo/D3.4_SO2_emission_estimates.pdf and for the inclusion of the SO2 emission inventory to the MarcoPolo Emission Database refer to: http://users.auth.gr/mariliza/MarcoPolo/D4.2_DescriptionMarcoPoloInventory.pdf as well as http://users.auth.gr/mariliza/MarcoPolo/D4.3_assessment_impact_updated_emission_inventories_v2.0.pdf .

The main reference to this dataset is found here:

Koukouli, M. E., Theys, N., Ding, J., Zyrichidou, I., Mijling, B., Balis, D., and van der A, R. J.: Updated SO2 emission estimates over China using OMI/Aura observations, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 1817–1832, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1817-2018, 2018.

The netcdf data files contain the following structure:

Dimensions

lat = 129

lon = 121

Attributes

author = "MariLiza Koukouli"

contact information = "[e-mail]"

institution = "Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki"

time frame = "2014"

sector classification = "total emissions"

emis_cat_name = "sulphur dioxide emissions"

source_type_name = "sulphur dioxide emissions"

pollutant_description = "updated sulphur dioxide emissions based on the CHIMERE model running the MEIC emissions and the OMI/Aura observations"

unit_emissions = "Mg/month"

nodata_value = "-9999.0"

Variables

float emissions(lon, lat)