CMSFluxFossilFuelPrior data quantifies global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion. The NASA Carbon Monitoring System produced this Level 4 dataset, which was last updated in 2017. It is hosted by the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC).
Use Cases
- Estimate national-scale fossil fuel CO2 emissions using modeled flux data.
- Validate bottom-up emission inventories by comparing with the CMS prior flux estimates.
- Assimilate fossil fuel prior flux data into atmospheric transport models to improve carbon budget calculations.
- Analyze spatial patterns of fossil fuel emissions for regional climate impact studies.
Strengths
- Data originates from the NASA Carbon Monitoring System, a major initiative for carbon source and sink characterization.
- Product is designed to support policy and regulatory activities with quantified uncertainties.
Limitations
- The dataset's last update was in 2017, making it temporally stale for current emission analysis.
- Specific spatial resolution, temporal coverage, and validation metrics are not provided in the description.
Provenance
- Source
- NASA Carbon Monitoring System (CMS), via GES DISC.
- Collection Method
- Generated using NASA satellite observations and modeling/analysis capabilities.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Global, with finer-scale regional information.