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Anthropogenic Emissions in Asia

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Air Pollution in Eastern Asia: An Integrated Perspective

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Accurate information on surface emissions is critical for understanding the current chemical composition of the atmosphere and for forecast simulations. Many research teams worked during the past years to better quantify emissions in different parts of the world, and to develop inventories of anthropogenic emissions for different periods. An evaluation of the most recent datasets providing emissions for Asia for the 1960–2014 period is discussed in this chapter for different gaseous and particulate compounds, i.e. carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, non-methane volatile organic compounds, sulfur dioxide, ammonia, black carbon, organic carbon, and particulate matter PM10 and PM2.5. The comparison between the inventories is used to quantify the range of the emissions for several regions and different periods. Since very little information is available concerning the uncertainties on emissions in the different regions of the world, we use the comparison between the different datasets to provide some information on these uncertainties.

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This work has received research funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) under the PANDA project grant agreement n° 606719.

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  1. Laboratoire d’Aérologie, Toulouse, France

    Claire Granier & Catherine Liousse

  2. NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA

    Claire Granier, Thierno Doumbia, Louise Granier & Katerina Sindelarova

  3. LATMOS/IPSL, UPMC University Paris 06 Sorbonne Universities, Paris, France

    Claire Granier & Gregory J. Frost

  4. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA

    Claire Granier

  5. Charles University of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Katerina Sindelarova

  6. Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstr. 53, Hamburg, 20146, Germany

    Idir Bouarar

  7. Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France

    Sabine Darras

  8. Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium

    Jenny Stavrakou

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Granier, C. et al. (2017). Anthropogenic Emissions in Asia. In: Bouarar, I., Wang, X., Brasseur, G. (eds) Air Pollution in Eastern Asia: An Integrated Perspective. ISSI Scientific Report Series, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59489-7_6

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