CoCO2-MOSAIC 1.0: Global Gridded CO2 Emissions from Fossil and Biofuel, 2015-2018

A global mosaic of regional, bottom-up inventories provides monthly gridded CO2 emissions fluxes at 0.1˚×0.1˚ resolution for the years 2015 to 2018. The dataset, developed by Rubén Urraca for the European Commission's CoCO2 project, disaggregates emissions into fossil fuel and biofuel sources across seven sectors. It integrates regional inventories for Europe, Africa, Argentina, Chile, South-East Asia, and the USA, using EDGAR and CAMS products for gap-filling and temporal disaggregation.

Use Cases

• Modeling regional carbon budgets based on sector-specific emissions data.
• Comparing global emission inventories based on the integrated regional mosaic.
• Analyzing spatial patterns of fossil fuel emissions based on the 0.1˚ gridded data.
• Studying temporal trends in biofuel emissions based on monthly fluxes from 2015-2018.

Strengths

• High spatial resolution of 0.1˚×0.1˚ for global coverage.
• Monthly temporal granularity for emissions from 2015 to 2018.
• Sectoral disaggregation into seven categories, including super-emitting sources.
• Integration of six specific regional inventories (e.g., CAMS-GHG-REG 5.1, VULCAN 3.0).

Limitations

• 2015 is the only year when all six regional inventories are simultaneously available.
• Aviation emissions from climb, descent, and cruise are provided in a separate file and not integrated into the main mosaic.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

European Commission, CoCO2 project

Collection Method

Mosaic of regional bottom-up inventories (CAMS-GHG-REG, DACCIWA, GEAA-AEI, INEMA, REAS, VULCAN) with gap-filling from EDGAR 6.0 and CAMS-GLOB-SHIP 3.1.

Time Range

2015 to 2018

Geography

Global