Focus on ECCAD Database

The ECCAD (Emissions of atmospheric Compounds and Compilation of Ancillary Data) database aims to provide scientists and decision-makers with data sets of surface emissions of chemical compounds and ancillary data needed to estimate and quantify emissions. ECCAD provides emissions of major atmospheric compounds such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, nitrogen oxides, sulphur dioxide, black carbon and organic carbon PM 2.5 and PM 10; as well as a wide range of different volatile organic compounds.

The AERIS/SEDOO data and services centre maintains the ECCAD database and provides numerous services, in particular as part of the European Copernicus CAMS project. A major activity of AERIS/SEDOO is the recovery and reformatting of atmospheric emission inventory products in a format requested by the atmospheric services of Copernicus. This includes products on European anthropogenic emissions and atmospheric pollutants, greenhouse gases and many other products.

A final feature of the web platform was developed this year: the online scatter plot. This feature allows two species of surface emissions to be compared and correlated.

Other improvements are currently being developed and should be published during 2024, including a redesign of the download page to make it more user-friendly and improve the user experience.

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