EDGAR Data Download

EDGAR v8.1 — Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research
Global gridded emissions at 0.1°, monthly, 1970–2022.

Source: edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset_ap81

Available species

BC, CO, NH3, NMVOC, NOx, OC, PM10, PM2.5, SO2

Download by year

import cinei

# List available species
cinei.list_edgar_species()

# Download NOx and SO2 for 2017
cinei.download_edgar(
    save_dir='/work/b123456/data/EDGAR',
    species=['NOx', 'SO2'],
    years=[2017]
)

# Download multiple years
cinei.download_edgar(
    save_dir='/work/b123456/data/EDGAR',
    species=['NOx'],
    years=list(range(2013, 2021))
)

Download specific month

# Download NOx for January 2017 only
cinei.download_edgar_monthly(
    save_dir='/work/b123456/data/EDGAR',
    species=['NOx'],
    year=2017,
    month=1
)

Note

EDGAR annual files are ~15 MB per species/year — much smaller than HTAP. download_edgar_monthly() downloads the annual file and extracts the requested month as a [lat, lon] NetCDF.

Output filename format

EDGAR_v8.1_{species}_{year}_{month:02d}_{month_name}_{data_type}.nc

Example: EDGAR_v8.1_NOx_2017_01_Jan_fluxes.nc