Global Monthly Atmospheric CO2 Distributions from 1850 to 2150

Global monthly atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration distributions reconstructed at 1º resolution from 1850 to 2013. Future spatial distributions under Shared Socio-economic Pathways and Representative Concentration Pathways scenarios are projected from 2015 to 2150. The dataset was created by Wei Cheng of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to enhance the realism of climate modeling.

Use Cases

• Enhancing global climate model realism based on nonuniform CO2 distributions
• Analyzing long-term spatial and temporal CO2 trends based on historical reconstructions from 1850
• Projecting future climate scenarios based on SSP and RCP pathway data
• Studying the relationship between fossil-fuel emissions and atmospheric concentrations based on longitudinal features

Strengths

• Covers a long temporal range from 1850 to 2150
• Provides global spatial data at 1º resolution
• Includes both historical reconstruction and future scenario projections

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Wei Cheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Collection Method

Historical data reconstructed following monthly and latitudinally resolved CO2 concentrations accounting for longitudinal features from fossil-fuel emissions data. Future scenarios generated based on spatial, seasonal, and interannual scales of current concentrations.

Time Range

1850 to 2150

Geography

Global