NAEI 2016 UK Emission Data for the EMEP Air Quality Model

National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory data for six key pollutants across the UK for 2016, formatted for the EMEP chemical transport model. The dataset includes 1km x 1km gridded area sources from 11 distinct sectors, with point sources allocated to their respective grid cells. Python scripts for processing the data are available from a Zenodo repository, and the data is provided under the UK Open Government Licence.

Use Cases

• Simulating atmospheric pollutant dispersion and chemistry based on the 1km gridded emissions for six pollutants.
• Analyzing sector-specific contributions to air pollution based on the 11 emission sectors (e.g., agriculture, road transport).
• Assessing the impact of point source emissions on total pollution loads based on the allocated point source data.
• Validating and calibrating regional air quality models using the formatted NetCDF data for the EMEP model v4.33+.

Strengths

• Covers six specific pollutants: Ammonia (NH3), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Nitrogen Oxides (NOx), Non-methane VOCs (VOC), PM2.5, and PM10.
• Provides emissions data for 11 distinct sectors, including agriculture, road transport, and industrial processes.
• Includes both gridded area sources at 1km resolution and allocated point sources for a more complete inventory.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale ML tasks.

Provenance

Source

National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (NAEI), Crown copyright Defra & BEIS

Collection Method

Processed and formatted from original NAEI mapping data by Douglas Lowe at the University of Manchester.

Time Range

2016

Geography

United Kingdom