Articles | Volume 16, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-245-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-245-2024
Review article
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11 Jan 2024
Review article |  | 11 Jan 2024

Greenhouse gas emissions and their trends over the last 3 decades across Africa

Mounia Mostefaoui, Philippe Ciais, Matthew J. McGrath, Philippe Peylin, Prabir K. Patra, and Yolandi Ernst

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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.
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