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Federal Lands Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sequestration in the United States: Estimates 2005-14 - Data Release

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2005-01-01
End Date
2014-12-31

Citation

Merrill, M.D., Sleeter, B.M., Freeman, P.A., Liu, J., Warwick, P.D., and Reed, B.C., 2018, Federal Lands Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sequestration in the United States: Estimates 2005-14: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7KH0MK4.

Summary

This dataset includes ten years of emissions and sequestration estimates (2005-2014) in two separate tables, 1) the combustion and extraction of fossil fuels on Federal lands and 2) processes from the ecosystems on those Federal lands. The fossil fuel related estimates include the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O), and the ecosystems estimates include only CO2. The results are presented by State and year, including the Pacific and Gulf offshore areas in the fossil fuel associated estimates. In addition to total emissions, the estimates are broken into categories by the sector of the economy where the combustion or extraction related emissions occurred or the biologic process being quantified. [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Matthew D Merrill
Originator :
Matthew D Merrill, Benjamin M Sleeter, Philip A Freeman, Jinxun Liu, Peter D Warwick, Bradley C Reed
Metadata Contact :
Eric A Morrissey
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
USGS Mission Area :
Energy and Minerals
SDC Data Owner :
Energy Resources Program

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Product_10.5066F7KH0MK4_METADATA.xml
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Product_10.5066F7KH0MK4_DATA_DICTIONARY.csv 26.35 KB text/csv
Product_10.5066F7KH0MK4_ECOSYSTEMS_SEQUESTRATION_DATA.csv 35.36 KB text/csv
Product_10.5066F7KH0MK4_FOSSIL_EMISSIONS_DATA.csv 122.8 KB text/csv

Purpose

This dataset provides, for the first time, researchers, decisions makers and other interested parties with emissions estimates from the combustion and extraction of fossil fuels on Federal lands and parallel values of sequestration from the same lands. The results could be used for many purposes. It will serve as a baseline to compare to other similar emission estimates, or to emissions from other geographic areas and economic sectors. The baseline can also be used to provide context for future estimates by showing areas of relative or absolute emissions changes. The potential uses beyond these baseline possibilities are wide ranging.

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