Validating CDIAC`s population-based approach to the disaggregation of within-country CO{sub 2} emissions [electronic resource].

Published:: Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Energy Research, 1998.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Physical Description:: 17 pages : digital, PDF file
Additional Creators:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy. Office of Energy Research, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information

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The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center produces and distributes a data base of CO₂ emissions from fossil-fuel combustion and cement production, expressed as global, regional, and national estimates. CDIAC also produces a companion data base, expressed on a one-degree latitude-longitude grid. To do this gridding, emissions within each country are spatially disaggregated according to the distribution of population within that country. Previously, the lack of within-country emissions data prevented a validation of this approach. But emissions inventories are now becoming available for most US states. An analysis of these inventories confirms that population distribution explains most, but not all, of the variance in the distribution of CO₂ emissions within the US. Additional sources of variance (coal production, non-carbon energy sources, and interstate electricity transfers) are explored, with the hope that the spatial disaggregation of emissions can be improved.

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E 1.99:ornl/cp--99776
E 1.99: conf-981061--
conf-981061--
ornl/cp--99776

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Published through SciTech Connect.
11/01/1998.
"ornl/cp--99776"
" conf-981061--"
"DE99000249"
"KP1204010"
Global climate change conference, Washington, DC (United States), 13-15 Oct 1998.
Beauchamp, J.J.; Cushman, R.M.; Brenkert, A.L.

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AC05-96OR22464

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