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Hestia Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide Emissions Inventory for Urban Regions

Kevin R. Gurney, Jianming Liang, Yuyu Zhou, Bedrick Benes, Risa Patarasuk
Contact: Tamae Wong.
Identifier: doi:10.18434/mds2-1902
Version: 1.0...
Hestia Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide Emissions Inventory for Urban Regions (Hestia FFCO2) provides data products for Los Angeles Basin, Northeast corridor, Indianapolis, and other U.S. Cities. Hestia FFCO2 datasets quantify greenhouse gases (GHG), such as carbon dioxide, emitted by urban regions, since cities are major contributors of anthropogenic GHG emissions. The Hestia FFCO2 datasets provide high spatial and temporal resolution CO2 concentrations at sub-county resolutions and annual/hourly time scales, specific to the region. This data product builds upon the Vulcan Project, which grids U.S. national emissions. Hestia FFCO2 datasets are currently available from 2010 for Los Angeles, Indianapolis, Salt Lake City, the city of Baltimore, and the Baltimore/Washington Region (Northeast Corridor).
Research Areas
NIST R&D: Environment: Greenhouse gas measurements
Keywords: Greenhouse GasCarbon DioxideCO2Urban EmissionsCarbon MonitoringShow more...
These data are public.
Data and related material can be found at the following locations:
  Hestia - Salt Lake City
Access to the data from Hestia - Salt Lake City
  Hestia - Indianapolis
DOI Access to data for Hestia - Indianapolis
  Hestia Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide (FFCO2) Data Product -- NE corridor domain, Version 1.0 Beta, 0.01 degree grid
The Hestia NE corridor version 1.0 Beta FFCO2 emissions data product represents emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels and cement production in 12 counties in the state of Maryland (6 counties), Virginia (5 counties), and District of Columbia from 2010 to 2015. The emissions are generated using a bottom-up/engineering approach and are tied to results generated by the Vulcan Project (version 3), an effort to quantify space/time-resolved FFCO2 emissions for the entire United States landscape. A large number of local data sources are combined to best estimate FFCO2 emissions at fine scales such as air quality emissions data, traffic flow data, building information, sociodemographic information, and fuel statistics. The native spatial resolution of the Hestia data product is a combination of points, lines, and polygons dictated primarily by the underlying data sources and the Vulcan FFCO2 emissions outputs. The output made available here places this information into a regularized grid (0.01 degrees latitude x 0.01 degrees longitude) at hourly and annual temporal resolutions. The files below are NetCDF format files that are compressed with tar and gzip (*.tgz). Each contains Hestia for all sectors for one calendar year indicated in the filename. Annual files contain annual means, while hourly files contain hourly emissions for that calendar year.
  Hestia Project at Arizona State University
URL: https://hestia.rc.nau.edu/
Version: 1.0...
Cite this dataset
Kevin R. Gurney, Jianming Liang, Zhou Yuyu, Benes Bedrich, Risa Patarasuk (2023), Hestia Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide Emissions Inventory for Urban Regions, National Institute of Standards and Technology, https://doi.org/10.18434/mds2-1902 (Accessed 2025-04-25)
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