Monthly Fossil-Fuel CO2 Emissions on a One-Degree Global Grid, 1950-2013

R. J. Andres of Oak Ridge National Laboratory provides monthly estimates of fossil-fuel carbon dioxide emissions from 1950 to 2013. The data spatially distributes national mass-emissions totals onto a one-degree latitude by one-degree longitude global grid using a fixed population distribution. Emissions are based on fossil-fuel consumption estimates, which are considered more representative of within-country emissions than production-based totals.

Use Cases

• Modeling historical atmospheric carbon flux based on gridded monthly emission estimates.
• Analyzing spatial distribution of fossil-fuel emissions based on the one-degree latitude/longitude grid.
• Studying long-term trends in national and regional CO2 emissions based on the 1950-2013 time series.
• Calibrating climate models with consumption-based emission data as described in the methodology.

Strengths

• Provides a 64-year monthly time series from 1950 to 2013.
• Spatially distributes data on a standardized one-degree latitude by one-degree longitude global grid.
• Emissions methodology is documented, referencing Andres et al. (2011) and Boden et al. (2016).
• Uses consumption-based estimates, which the source notes are more representative of within-country emissions.

Limitations

• Row count, file formats, and column-level documentation are unknown.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• The spatial distribution relies on a fixed population distribution from 1996, which may not reflect dynamic changes.

Provenance

Source

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, authored by R. J. Andres.

Collection Method

Derived from time series of global, regional, and national fossil-fuel CO2 emissions, spatially distributed using a fixed population grid.

Time Range

1950 to 2013.

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Global, gridded by one-degree latitude and longitude.