Development of a new gas-flaring emission dataset for southern West Africa

Deetz, Konrad; Vogel, Bernhard

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-1607-2017

Articles | Volume 10, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-1607-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-1607-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 4

Development and technical paper

|

18 Apr 2017

Development and technical paper |

| 18 Apr 2017

Development of a new gas-flaring emission dataset for southern West Africa

Konrad Deetz and Bernhard Vogel

Data sets

Gas flaring emission estimation parameterization v2 K. Deetz and B. Vogel https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.61151

Model code and software

Gas flaring emission estimation parameterization v2 K. Deetz and B. Vogel https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.61151

Short summary

A new gas flaring emission data set for CO, CO₂, NO, NO₂ and SO₂ has been developed, which combines remote sensing observations with combustion equations. The physically based parameterization can easily be applied to different research domains, e.g., to provide flaring emission datasets for chemistry models. Within the project DACCIWA, we have derived a flaring data set for southern West Africa and compared the results to pre-existing emission inventories.