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EDGAR v5.0 Global Air Pollutant Emissions

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EDGARv5.0 provides emissions not only for the greenhouse gases per sector and country but also for the air pollutants:

- Ozone precursor gases: Carbon Monoxide (CO), Nitrogen Oxides (NOx), Non-Methane Volatile Organic Compounds (NMVOC) and Methane (CH4).

- Acidifying gases: Ammonia (NH3), Nitrogen oxides (NOx) and Sulfur Dioxide (SO2).

- Primary particulates: Fine Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5 and Carbonaceous speciation (BC, OC).

Emissions from large scale biomass burning with Savannah burning, forest fires, and sources and sinks from land-use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) are excluded.

For the energy related sectors the activity data are mainly based on the energy balance statistics of IEA (2017) (Internet: http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/energy/co2-emissions-from-fuel-combustion-2017_co2_fuel-2017-en), whereas the activity data for the agricultural sectors originate mainly from FAO (2018) (Internet: http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#home). Additional information can be found in Crippa et al. (2019).

Novelties compared to previous EDGAR release (EDGARv4.3.2 (Crippa et al., 2018)) are: - new temporal profiles to compute monthly and hourly emissions (Crippa et al., 2020, in press),

- new spatial proxies to distribute population-related emissions based on the Global Human Settlements Layer product (Pesaresi et al., 2019),

- updates in the technologies, emission factors and end-of-pipe reductions for the power generation sector (for Europe, China and USA) based on the Platts 2018 database, and the implementation of the regulation taking place in these regions,

- updates in the technologies, emission factors and end-of-pipe reductions for the road transport sector (for Europe only). These updates are based on the EMISIA 2018 data,

-Estimates of particulate matter emissions from road surface wear and road vehicle tyre and break wear based on the EMEP/EEA guidebook 2019 Tier 1 approach (https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/emep-eea-guidebook-2019).

Contributors

Diego Guizzardi; Edwin Schaaf; Gabriel Oreggioni; Marilena Muntean; Monica Crippa

How to cite

Crippa, Monica; Guizzardi, Diego; Muntean, Marilena; Schaaf, Edwin; Oreggioni, Gabriel (2026): EDGAR v5.0 Global Air Pollutant Emissions. European Commission, Joint Research Centre [Dataset] doi: 10.2905/JRC.WSYWQMG PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/377801af-b094-4943-8fdc-f79a7c0c2d19

Keywords

air pollutantsemissionsinventorymonthly

Data access

EDGARv5.0_AP: air pollutants emissions gridmaps
NetCDF

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EDGARv5.0_AP: air pollutants emissions timeseries
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Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice

According to the European Commission reuse notice, reuse is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged. The reuse policy of the European Commission is implemented by the Decision of 12 December 2011. The general principle of reuse can be subject to conditions which may be specified in individual copyright notices. Therefore users are advised to refer to the copyright notices of the individual websites maintained under Europa and of the individual documents. Reuse is not applicable to documents subject to intellectual property rights of third parties.

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No limitations

Anybody can directly and anonymously access the data, without being required to register or authenticate.

Spatial coverage

Temporal coverage

From date To date
1970-01-01 2015-01-01

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Contact email
jrc-edgar (at) ec.europa.eu
Update frequency
irregular

The event occurs at uneven intervals.

Language(s)
English

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Data theme(s)
Environment

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Science and technology

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Geographical name(s)
World
Issued date
2019-01-01
Created date
07 Jul 2020 13:24
Modified date
04 Feb 2026 10:15
Landing page
https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/overview.php?v=50_AP 
Dataset identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/377801af-b094-4943-8fdc-f79a7c0c2d19
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