The freight and passenger transport on water is a growing source of emissions, worldwide. This includes ocean going ship and in-land transport. In our WRF-CAMx regional chemical transport model, covering the Indian Subcontinent, we adopted the inventory compiled by the EDGAR Team’s HTAP_V2 inventory based on MICS-Asia, EPA-US/Canada and TNO.
Daily animation for ICOADS daily observations 1800 to 2013 (visible for 3 days at a time), created from Release 2.5, 1800-2013, by Philip Brohan (This video is sourced from Dr. Corbett’s website)
Some useful references on ship emissions
- Mortality for ship emissions: A global perspective (2007)
- Improving spatial representation of global ship emissions inventories (2008)
- Shipping emissions – from warming to cooling of climate to reducing health impacts (2009)
- Specific climate impact of passenger and freight transport (2010)
- Global ship emission maps
- various ship emission inventories included in the GEOS-Chem model
- Dr. Jim Corbett @ U.Del, developing emission inventories and studying proxies for improving the inventories
- US.EPA – ocean vessels and large ships
- IMO-MARPOL convention
- IMO – air pollution, energy efficiency and greenhouse gases
- Ship emissions in EU – inventories and controls
- AirClim – air pollution from ships