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Diffuse Air Releases (Art 8) under the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) Regulation

Created : May 27, 2011 Published : Jun 07, 2011 Last modified : Nov 29, 2012 11:57 AM
The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) is a web-based register established by Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 which implements the UNECE PRTR Protocol.
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European data

European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) diffuse air emission datasets.

The set of 32 maps shows the distribution of air pollutant emissions from diffuse sources. The data is based on a scale of 5 by 5 km grid and includes details of nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulphur oxides (SOx), carbon monoxide (CO), ammonia (NH3), carbon dioxide (CO2) and particulate matter (PM10). It complements existing data on emissions from individual industrial plants included in the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR).

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Field nameTypeDescription
Pollutant String (10.0) Name of pollutant
Year Integer (4.0) The emissions reference year
Unit (tonnes/grid)
for CO2 (kilotonnes/grid)		 String (2.0) The unit of the emission values
Value Real (19.11) The emission value for the 5x5km2 grid

 

GIS data

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EPSG:3035

Methodology

Additional information

Metadata

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Temporal coverage:
2008
Last upload:
06 Jun 2011
Tags:
air pollution | climate change | industry | chemicals | vector data | geospatial data
Scale of the data set:
1:1000000
Rights:
EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: Directorate-General for Environment (DG Environment).
Methodology:

The diffuse emissions are allocated using GIS overlay techniques for distribution into grid cells with a spatial resolution of 5x5km². The dataset is then transformed into vector polygons and projected into the E-PRTR WGS84 standard projection. A complete and detailed methodology report covering each pollutant and sector is available within the above methodology report.

Coordinate reference system:
EPSG:4326
Data sources

European Commission Directorate-general for Environment.

Owners:
Directorate-General for Environment (DG Environment)
Processors:
Directorate-General for Environment (DG Environment)
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Additional information

  • Article 8 of the Regulation sets the condition for the Commission, assisted by the European Environment Agency, to include in the European PRTR information on releases from diffuse sources using an adequate geographical disaggregation and to provide information on the methodology. The current datasets include information on emissions from road transport, shipping, aviation, heating of buildings, agriculture and small businesses (diffuse sources).
  • The maps show spatially distributed emissions for the year 2008, based upon sectoral emissions data officially reported by countries to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
  • Further information on diffuse source releases into water and soil will be available in coming years.
  • The layers are available on the E-PRTR integrated map viewer at: http://prtr.ec.europa.eu/DiffuseSourcesAir.aspx
 
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