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Monthly estimates of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil‐fuel consumption in Brazil during the late 1990s and early 2000s
Author(s) -
Losey London M,
Andres Robert J,
Marland Gregg
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2006.00713.x
Subject(s) - southern hemisphere , fossil fuel , greenhouse gas , environmental science , carbon dioxide , northern hemisphere , consumption (sociology) , population , geography , natural resource economics , climatology , economics , geology , ecology , oceanography , demography , social science , sociology , biology
Detailed understanding of global carbon cycling requires estimates of CO2emissions on temporal and spatial scales finer than annual and country. This is the first attempt to derive such estimates for a large, developing, Southern Hemisphere country. Though data on energy use are not complete in terms of time and geography, there are enough data available on the sale or consumption of fuels in Brazil to reasonably approximate the temporal and spatial patterns of fuel use and CO2emissions. Given the available data, a strong annual cycle in emissions from Brazil is not apparent. CO2emissions are unevenly distributed within Brazil as the population density and level of development both vary widely.