Downscaling tool to construct city emission inventories
report
This report describes the downscaling approach as was developed within the EU PAUL project (Pilot Applications in Urban Landscapes - Towards integrated city observatories for greenhouse gases (ICOS Cities)) (ICOS Cities | ICOS). It is intended as an illustration and support for the city emission inventory guidelines, as well as documentation for atmospheric composition modellers working with the output of the downscaling tool. This report allows users of the data to get a better understanding of how the product was developed and supports in the quality assessment. Cities are major hotspots of human activities and, consequently, of emissions of greenhouse gases, making cities key contributors to climate change (IPCC, 2022). At the same time, climate change severely impacts urban life, for example, through increased heat stress and flood risk (UN Human Settlements Programme, 2024). In addition, those same human activities cause emissions of air pollutants. In urban areas, high concentrations of air pollutants meet large population numbers, causing a significant negative health impact (Health Effects Institute, 2022). Hence, cities provide great opportunities for combatting climate change, while at the same time creating a healthy, inclusive, and resilient living environment for over half of the world’s population.
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TNO Identifier
1020009
Publisher
TNO
Collation
17 p.
Place of publication
Utrecht