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Data description paper
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05 Oct 2023
Data description paper |
| 05 Oct 2023
| 05 Oct 2023
The consolidated European synthesis of CO2 emissions and removals for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990–2020
Matthew J. McGrath
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), CEA CNRS
UVSQ UPSACLAY Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Ana Maria Roxana Petrescu
Department of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081HV,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Philippe Peylin
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), CEA CNRS
UVSQ UPSACLAY Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Robbie M. Andrew
CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway
Bradley Matthews
Environment Agency Austria, Spittelauer Lände 5 1090, Vienna,
Austria
Frank Dentener
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Via E. Fermi, 21027, Ispra, Italy
Juraj Balkovič
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), 2361
Laxenburg, Austria
Vladislav Bastrikov
Science Partners, 75010 Paris, France
Meike Becker
Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
Gregoire Broquet
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), CEA CNRS
UVSQ UPSACLAY Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Philippe Ciais
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), CEA CNRS
UVSQ UPSACLAY Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Audrey Fortems-Cheiney
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), CEA CNRS
UVSQ UPSACLAY Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Raphael Ganzenmüller
Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München, Luisenstraße 37, 80333 Munich, Germany
Giacomo Grassi
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Via E. Fermi, 21027, Ispra, Italy
Ian Harris
National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), University of East
Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
Climatic Research Unit (CRU), School of
Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
Matthew Jones
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Environmental
Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ,
United Kingdom
Jürgen Knauer
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University,
Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia
Matthias Kuhnert
Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of
Aberdeen, 23 St Machar Drive, Aberdeen AB24 3UU, United Kingdom
Guillaume Monteil
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University,
Sweden
Saqr Munassar
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Strasse 10,
07745 Jena, Germany
Paul I. Palmer
School of GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United
Kingdom
Glen P. Peters
CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway
Chunjing Qiu
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), CEA CNRS
UVSQ UPSACLAY Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Mart-Jan Schelhaas
Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research
(WUR), 6708PB, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Oksana Tarasova
Infrastructure Department, World Meteorological Organization
(WMO), Geneva, Switzerland
Matteo Vizzarri
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Via E. Fermi, 21027, Ispra, Italy
Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Ambientali – Produzione, Territorio, Agroenergia, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
Karina Winkler
Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research
(WUR), 6708PB, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Land Use Change & Climate Research Group, IMK-IFU, Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Gianpaolo Balsamo
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading
RG2 9AX, United Kingdom
Antoine Berchet
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), CEA CNRS
UVSQ UPSACLAY Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Peter Briggs
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University,
Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia
Patrick Brockmann
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), CEA CNRS
UVSQ UPSACLAY Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Frédéric Chevallier
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), CEA CNRS
UVSQ UPSACLAY Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Giulia Conchedda
Statistics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome 00153, Italy
Monica Crippa
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Via E. Fermi, 21027, Ispra, Italy
Uni Systems S.A., Milan, Italy
Stijn N. C. Dellaert
Department of Climate, Air and Sustainability, TNO, Princetonlaan 6,
3584 CB Utrecht, the Netherlands
Hugo A. C. Denier van der Gon
Department of Climate, Air and Sustainability, TNO, Princetonlaan 6,
3584 CB Utrecht, the Netherlands
Sara Filipek
Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research
(WUR), 6708PB, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Pierre Friedlingstein
College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University
of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QF, United Kingdom
Richard Fuchs
Land Use Change & Climate Research Group, IMK-IFU, Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Michael Gauss
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Christoph Gerbig
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Strasse 10,
07745 Jena, Germany
Diego Guizzardi
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Via E. Fermi, 21027, Ispra, Italy
Dirk Günther
Umweltbundesamt (UBA), 14193 Berlin, Germany
Richard A. Houghton
Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, Massachusetts, United
States of America
Greet Janssens-Maenhout
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Via E. Fermi, 21027, Ispra, Italy
Ronny Lauerwald
Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, UMR ECOSYS,
Palaiseau, France
Bas Lerink
Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research
(WUR), 6708PB, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Ingrid T. Luijkx
Meteorology and Air Quality Group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, the Netherlands
Géraud Moulas
ARTTIC, 39 rue des Mathurins, 75008 Paris, France
Marilena Muntean
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Via E. Fermi, 21027, Ispra, Italy
Gert-Jan Nabuurs
Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research
(WUR), 6708PB, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Aurélie Paquirissamy
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), CEA CNRS
UVSQ UPSACLAY Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Lucia Perugini
Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), Viterbo,
Italy
Wouter Peters
Meteorology and Air Quality Group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, the Netherlands
Centre for Isotope Research, Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, the Netherlands
Roberto Pilli
Scientific consultant: Padua, Italy
Julia Pongratz
Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München, Luisenstraße 37, 80333 Munich, Germany
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146
Hamburg, Germany
Pierre Regnier
Biogeochemistry and Modeling of the Earth System, Université
Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Marko Scholze
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University,
Sweden
Yusuf Serengil
Department of Watershed
Management, Faculty of Forestry, Istanbul University Cerrahpasa, 34473 Sariyer, Istanbul, Türkiye
Pete Smith
Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of
Aberdeen, 23 St Machar Drive, Aberdeen AB24 3UU, United Kingdom
Efisio Solazzo
Uni Systems S.A., Milan, Italy
Rona L. Thompson
Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), Kjeller, Norway
Francesco N. Tubiello
Statistics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome 00153, Italy
Timo Vesala
University of Helsinki, Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System
Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, 00560 Helsinki, Finland
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, Forest Sciences,
Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki,
Finland
Sophia Walther
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Strasse 10,
07745 Jena, Germany
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Short summary
Accurate estimation of fluxes of carbon dioxide from the land surface is essential for understanding future impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on the climate system. A wide variety of methods currently exist to estimate these sources and sinks. We are continuing work to develop annual comparisons of these diverse methods in order to clarify what they all actually calculate and to resolve apparent disagreement, in addition to highlighting opportunities for increased understanding.
Accurate estimation of fluxes of carbon dioxide from the land surface is essential for...
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