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Anthropogenic sulfur dioxide emissions: 1850–2005
S. J. Smith
ssmith@pnl.gov
J. van Aardenne
Z. Klimont
R. Andres
A. Volke
S. Delgado Arias
Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 5825 University Research Court, Suite 3500, College Park, MD 20740, USA
European Commission Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Via E. Fermi 2749, TP 290,I – 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
current address: European Environment Agency, Kongens Nytorv 6, 1050 Copenhagen, Denmark
Sulfur aerosols impact human health, ecosystems, agriculture, and
global and regional climate. A new annual estimate of anthropogenic
global and regional sulfur dioxide emissions has been constructed
spanning the period 1850–2005 using a bottom-up mass balance method,
calibrated to country-level inventory data. Global emissions peaked in
the early 1970s and decreased until 2000, with an increase in recent
years due to increased emissions in China, international shipping, and
developing countries in general. An uncertainty analysis was conducted
including both random and systemic uncertainties. The overall global
uncertainty in sulfur dioxide emissions is relatively small, but
regional uncertainties ranged up to 30%. The largest contributors
to uncertainty at present are emissions from China and international
shipping. Emissions were distributed on a 0.5° grid by
sector for use in coordinated climate model experiments.
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