The PRIMAP-hist national historical emissions time series

To assess the history of greenhouse gas emissions and individual countries' contributions to emissions and climate change, detailed historical data are needed. We combine several published datasets to create a comprehensive set of emissions pathways for each country and Kyoto gas, covering the...

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Published in:Earth system science data 2016-11, Vol.8 (2), p.571-603
Main Authors: Gütschow, Johannes, Jeffery, M. Louise, Gieseke, Robert, Gebel, Ronja, Stevens, David, Krapp, Mario, Rocha, Marcia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural land
Air pollution
Carbon
Carbon dioxide
Climate change
Colonies & territories
Computer simulation
Data
Datasets
Deforestation
Emissions
Environmental aspects
Environmental policy
Global temperature changes
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gases
Growth rate
Historical account
History
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Kyoto Protocol
Land use
Time series
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Summary:To assess the history of greenhouse gas emissions and individual countries' contributions to emissions and climate change, detailed historical data are needed. We combine several published datasets to create a comprehensive set of emissions pathways for each country and Kyoto gas, covering the years 1850 to 2014 with yearly values, for all UNFCCC member states and most non-UNFCCC territories. The sectoral resolution is that of the main IPCC 1996 categories. Additional time series of CO2 are available for energy and industry subsectors. Country-resolved data are combined from different sources and supplemented using year-to-year growth rates from regionally resolved sources and numerical extrapolations to complete the dataset. Regional deforestation emissions are downscaled to country level using estimates of the deforested area obtained from potential vegetation and simulations of agricultural land. In this paper, we discuss the data sources and methods used and present the resulting dataset, including its limitations and uncertainties. The dataset is available from doi:10.5880/PIK.2016.003 and can be viewed on the website accompanying this paper (http://www.pik-potsdam.de/primap-live/primap-hist/).
ISSN:1866-3516
1866-3508
1866-3516
DOI:10.5194/essd-8-571-2016