Articles | Volume 18, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1619-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1619-2026
Data description article
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02 Mar 2026
Data description article |  | 02 Mar 2026

The ELK global emission inventory for the transport sectors

Mattia Righi, Simone Ehrenberger, Sabine Brinkop, Johannes Hendricks, Jens Hellekes, Paweł Banyś, Isheeka Dasgupta, Patrick Draheim, Annika Fitz, Manuel Löber, Thomas Pregger, Yvonne Scholz, Angelika Schulz, Birgit Suhr, Nina Thomsen, Christian Martin Weder, Peter Berster, Maximilian Clococeanu, Marc Gelhausen, Alexander Lau, Florian Linke, Sigrun Matthes, and Zarah Lea Zengerling

Data sets

ELK - Global Emission Inventory - Land Transport Sector, 2019 Simone Ehrenberger et al. https://doi.org/10.15489/d9dswthdix21

ELK - Global Emission Inventory - Shipping Sector, 2019 Paweł Banyś et al. https://doi.org/10.15489/lhqawfes5755

ELK - Global Emission Inventory - Aviation Sector, 2019 Christian Martin Weder et al. https://doi.org/10.15489/86s8uwpxik95

ELK - Global Emission Inventory - Energy-for-Transport Sector, 2019 Patrick Draheim et al. https://doi.org/10.15489/gixadaq6ds98

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The ELK (EmissionsLandKarte) emission inventory provides global emissions for the three transport sectors (land transport, shipping and aviation) and transport-related emissions for the energy sector (oil refineries). It features a detailed resolution of the emissions in different subsectors, transport-specific quantities like non-exhaust emissions, and aviation-specific parameters. The inventory is complemented with uncertainty scores and validated against well-established global inventories.
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