Global Map of Emission Clumps for Fossil Fuel CO2 Monitoring from Space

A global map identifies 11,314 fossil fuel CO2 emission clumps, including 5,088 area clumps and 6,226 point-source clumps. The dataset supplements a paper submitted to ESSD and is based on the ODIAC2017 emission map at 30×30 arc-seconds resolution. It was created by Yilong Wang to characterize sources that may cause coherent XCO2 plumes in satellite imagery.

Use Cases

• Characterizing area and point fossil fuel CO2 sources based on the identified emission clumps.
• Supporting observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs) for future satellite-based carbon monitoring missions.
• Informing global and regional atmospheric inversion systems with a map of emission clumps.
• Analyzing potential coherent XCO2 plumes detectable in space-borne imagery.

Strengths

• Contains 11,314 individually identified emission clumps, providing a global inventory.
• Distinguishes between 5,088 area clumps and 6,226 point-source clumps.
• Derived from the ODIAC2017 emission map, a known data product for fossil fuel CO2 emissions.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Yilong Wang, supplementing a paper submitted to ESSD.

Collection Method

Clumps identified based on the ODIAC2017 fossil fuel CO2 emission map at 30×30 arc-seconds resolution.

Geography

Global