Reactive nitrogen in atmospheric emission inventories

Reactive and Non-reactive Species of Nitrogen in Atmospheric Emission Inventories – A Review

Nitrogen in different forms is naturally available in abundance in the atmosphere. Excess nitrogen, however, has gradually become the one cause for the most pressing environmental problems we currently face in various regions of the world, since the Haber-Bosch process has made the industrial scale production of nitrogen fertilisers possible. Interactions between the drivers, namely emissions o...

Temporal and spatial distribution of atmospheric antimony emission inventories from coal combustion in China.

A multiple-year inventory of atmospheric antimony (Sb) emissions from coal combustion in China for the period of 1980-2007 has been calculated for the first time. Specifically, the emission inventories of Sb from 30 provinces and 4 economic sectors (thermal power, industry, residential use, and others) are evaluated and analyzed in detail. It shows that the total Sb emissions released from coal...

Updated emission inventories for speciated atmospheric mercury from anthropogenic sources in China.

China is the largest contributor to global atmospheric mercury (Hg), and accurate emission inventories in China are needed to reduce large gaps existing in global Hg mass balance estimates and assess Hg effects on various ecosystems. The China Atmospheric Mercury Emission (CAME) model was developed in this study using probabilistic emission factors generated from abundant on-site measurements a...

On the Use of Air Quality Monitoring Networks for the Evaluation of Nitrogen Oxide Emission Inventories

The usefulness of ground based air quality monitoring data for diagnostics of uncertainties in gridded emission inventories is examined. A general probabilistic procedure for comparison of levels of uncertainties in different emission datasets is developed. It implies the evaluation of the agreement between modeling results obtained with these emission datasets and corresponding measurements. T...

Reactive nitrogen in Germany