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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-245-2024
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Review article
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11 Jan 2024
Review article |
| 11 Jan 2024
| 11 Jan 2024
Greenhouse gas emissions and their trends over the last 3 decades across Africa
Mounia Mostefaoui
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique/IPSL, École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, Sorbonne University, École Polytechnique, IP Paris, CNRS, Paris, France
Philippe Ciais
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Matthew J. McGrath
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Philippe Peylin
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Prabir K. Patra
Research Institute for Global Change, JAMSTEC, Yokohama 2360001, Japan
Yolandi Ernst
Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Our aim is to assess African anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and removals by using different data products, including inventories and process-based models, and to compare their relative merits with inversion data coming from satellites. We show a good match among the various estimates in terms of overall trends at a regional level and on a decadal basis, but large differences exist even among similar data types, which is a limit to the possibility of verification of country-reported data.
Our aim is to assess African anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and removals by using...
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