Global Crop and Livestock Greenhouse Gas Emissions at 5 Arc Minutes, 1997-2003

Global greenhouse gas emissions data for 7 livestock commodities and 172 cultivated crops at a 5 arc-minute resolution. It includes total emissions and emission intensities per unit of mass produced for the period around the year 2000. The dataset was produced by the Environmental Information Data Centre.

Use Cases

• Analyze methane and nitrous oxide emissions from enteric fermentation and manure management for bovine and small ruminant meat production.
• Model carbon dioxide emissions from peatland drainage and synthetic fertilizer application across 172 crop types.
• Compare greenhouse gas emission intensities per unit of mass for poultry meat versus pig meat production.
• Map spatial patterns of total GHG emissions from livestock commodities like bovine milk and poultry eggs at 5 arc-minute resolution.

Strengths

• Covers 7 distinct livestock commodities and 172 cultivated crops globally.
• Provides data at a high spatial resolution of 5 arc minutes across all land areas.
• Includes both total emissions and emission intensity metrics per product.

Limitations

• Temporal coverage is limited to a snapshot around the year 2000 (1997-2003), making it stale for current analyses.
• No information on dataset size, row count, or column structure is provided for assessing computational requirements.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

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Time Range

1997-2003

Freshness

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Geography

Global land area