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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3959-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-3959-2026
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10 Jun 2026
Data description article |  | 10 Jun 2026

Link-based European road transport emissions for CAMS-REG v8.1 and a comparison to city inventories

Tilman Leo Hohenberger, Marya el Malki, Antoon Visschedijk, Marc Guevara, Martin Otto Paul Ramacher, Alessandro Marongiu, Guido Giuseppe Lanzani, Giuseppe Fossati, Anu Kousa, Eleni Athanasopoulou, Anastasia Kakouri, and Jeroen Kuenen

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Spatial distribution road transport emissions for CAMS-REG v8.1 Tilman Leo Hohenberger et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15688722

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Spatial road transport emission data is fundamental for challenges of air pollution and climate change. In the existing European CAMS-REG (Copernicus Atmosphere Service-regional) inventory, several improvement opportunities exist, especially an underestimation in urban centers of ~35 %. We calculate emissions by combining gap-filled road information and emission factors, for the first time giving detailed emissions for most roads in Europe. With this, our dataset is much closer in line with independently combined city inventories.
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