European primary emissions of criteria pollutants and greenhouse gases in 2020 modulated by the COVID-19 pandemic disruptions

Guevara, Marc; Petetin, Hervé; Jorba, Oriol; Denier van der Gon, Hugo; Kuenen, Jeroen; Super, Ingrid; Jalkanen, Jukka-Pekka; Majamäki, Elisa; Johansson, Lasse; Peuch, Vincent-Henri; Pérez García-Pando, Carlos

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-2521-2022

Articles | Volume 14, issue 6

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 2521–2552, 2022

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-2521-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 2521–2552, 2022

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-2521-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 6

Data description paper

02 Jun 2022

Data description paper | 02 Jun 2022

European primary emissions of criteria pollutants and greenhouse gases in 2020 modulated by the COVID-19 pandemic disruptions

Marc Guevara et al.

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-2521-2022-supplement

Data sets

CAMS-REG_EAF-COVID19 emission adjustment factors Marc Guevara, Hervé Petetin, Oriol Jorba, and Carlos Pérez García-Pando https://doi.org/10.24380/k966-3957

CAMS-REG-v5.1 BAU 2020 emission inventory Jeroen Kuenen, Stijn Dellaert, Antoon Visschedijk, Jukka-Pekka Jalkanen, Ingrid Super, and Hugo Denier van der Gon https://doi.org/10.24380/eptm-kn40

Short summary

To control the spread of the COVID-19 disease, European governments implemented mobility restriction measures that resulted in an unprecedented drop in anthropogenic emissions. This work presents a dataset of emission adjustment factors that allows quantifying changes in 2020 European primary emissions per country and pollutant sector at the daily scale. The resulting dataset can be used as input in modelling studies aiming at quantifying the impact of COVID-19 on air quality levels.