DOWNLOAD the complete US Vulcan fossil fuel CO2 emissions inventory (gzipped) and the associated readme files. We have made available binary (double precision) and netCDF (single precision) formatted files on both our 10 x 10 km grid and on a 0.1 degree grid. Individual sectoral and total files are available.
Please note that these binary files are written as fortran "binary" files.
if you need another format or a particular sector, let us know.
See a problem in the data? Have reliable local information? We would love to hear from you and improve our data sources. Go to our communicate page and send us an email - local knowledge is extremely valuable.
DOWNLOAD reduced datasets (description refers to the spatial unit/time integral/economic or material division):
- county/annual/sector total and per capita CO2 emissions
- state/annual/sector total and per capita CO2 emissions
- state/annual/material total CO2 emissions
- US powerplants emissions data (those reporting under Acid Rain legislation)
- Vulcan v EIA comparison plot (total)
- Vulcan v EIA comparison plot (coal)
- Vulcan v EIA comparison plot (NG)
- Vulcan v EIA comparison plot (petrol)
- Imagine GIS shapefile for total emissions w/out Cement (zipped)






