Ammonia emissions data for the year 1990, covering natural and human-made sources worldwide. The inventory includes emissions from domestic animals, wild animals, synthetic fertilizers, biomass burning, biofuel combustion, natural soils, crops, human population, fossil fuel use, industry, and oceans. This dataset was produced by the Global Emissions Inventory Activity (GEIA) under IGBP/IGAC and is hosted by NASA Earthdata.
Use Cases
- Modeling atmospheric ammonia concentrations using emissions from domestic animals, wild animals, and synthetic fertilizers.
- Assessing the relative contribution of biomass burning and biofuel combustion to regional ammonia budgets.
- Analyzing spatial patterns of ammonia from natural soils and crops to inform land-use management.
- Estimating anthropogenic ammonia sources by combining data from fossil fuel use, industry, and human population.
Strengths
- Global spatial coverage for emissions modeling.
- Inventory includes 11 distinct source categories for detailed analysis.
Limitations
- Data is from a single reference year (1990) and is temporally stale.
- No row or sample size information is available to assess granularity.
- Specific column definitions and file formats are unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- Global Emissions Inventory Activity (GEIA), IGBP/IGAC
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- 1990
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Global