Sentences with phrase «quality emissions data»

This would be especially useful in parts of the world where high - quality emissions data are not readily available.

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«The environmental impact of prescribed burns has historically been based on data from clean fuels in areas of good air quality, so we have likely been under - predicting the impact of biomass emissions in polluted areas,» Asa - Awuku said.

Concerns remain about the quality and opacity of China's emissions reporting data.

Pinning down reliable data for carbon emissions in Chinese companies has long been a challenge because of doubts over the quality of their energy use records.

Lead UK researcher Prof Dabo Guan, of UEA's School of International Development, said the key contributor to the new estimates was fuel quality, which for the first time was taken into consideration in establishing emission inventories — something the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and most international data sources had not.

While this type of sampling is rudimentary, the bucket tests were more than what Louisiana's Department of Environmental Quality had done; the regulatory agency relied mainly on Shell's emissions data, which indicated that concentration levels of pollutants fell below the permitted state limits.

«There is no doubt that the authors have made a significant step forward» in characterizing China's emissions, and the country's effort to improve the quality of its climate data «is very welcome,» says Josep Canadell, an earth system scientist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Canberra.

«The overall significance is that although we already know that reducing methane emissions can bring great societal benefits via decreased near - term warming and improved air quality, and that many of the sources can be controlled at low or even negative cost, we still need better data on emissions from particular sources,» Duke University climate sciences professor Drew Shindell said.

Considering its extreme importance of the AKARI far - infrared diffuse emission map, we are now investigating carefully the quality of the data for possible release of the archival data.

Climate Change Science: High Quality Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data are a Cornerstone of Programs to Address Climate Change.

The methodologies for estimating emissions / removals from the land - use change and forestry category require high quality statistical data and emission factors.

-- The term «Climate Registry» means the greenhouse gas emissions registry jointly established and managed by more than 40 States and Indian tribes in 2007 to collect high - quality greenhouse gas emission data from facilities, corporations, and other organizations to support various greenhouse gas emission reporting and reduction policies for the member States and Indian tribes.

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The result of each test of data set quality or of observation - simulation agreement was expressed as a numerical score, and then these scores were merged into an overall measure of confidence in the hypothesis that human - generated emissions have affected the regional climate, ranging from «none» to «very high».

Population aging and environmental quality in OECD countries: evidence from sulfur dioxide emissions data.

However, because of issues related to data quality, the low frequency of extreme event impacts, limited length of the time series, and various societal factors present in the disaster loss record, it is still not possible to determine the portion of the increase in damages that might be attributed to climate change brought about by greenhouse gas emissions (S1).

«As part of the CAMS service, we estimate to which extent wildfire emissions influence the air quality by incorporating the Global Fire Assimilation System (GFAS) data into our air quality forecasts,» says Parrington.

may give cause for some to question the wider role of climate change and not solely global warming, that are induced by anthropogenic emissions, changes in land use, water quality etc for which there is direct empirical data in the form of images, and not in mathematical treatments of theory and simulated models.

EIA's carbon dioxide emission factors were derived from data in the EIA Coal Analysis File, one of the most comprehensive data sources on U.S. coal quality by coalbed and coal - producing county.