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<H2><a class=“intext” HREF=“/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=capri:concept:spatialdownscaling”>Selected environmental indicators at 1×1 km grid resolution</A><BR> - Green House Gas Emissions</H2>
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Main Contributors: Ignacio Perez, Adrian Leip, Wolfgang Britz
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<P>The <B>Green House Gas emissions</B> per agricultural production activity are taken currently from the regional CAPRI data base where they are calculated according
the guidelines for Green House gas inventories defined by the <a class=“intext” HREF=“http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/”>Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change</a>.
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<P>The following sources are covered:</P>
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<li>Methane emissions from manure management </li>
<li>Methane emissions from manure management </li>
<li>Methane emissions from enteric fermentation </li>
<li>Methane emissions from enteric fermentation </li>
<li>Direct emissions from animal waste on the field </li>
<li>Direct emissions from cultivation of histosols </li>
<li>Direct emissions from crop residues </li>
<li>Direct emissions from nitrogen fixing crops </li>
<li>Indirect emissions from ammonia volatilisation </li>
<li>Indirect emissions from leaching </li>
<li>Emissions stemming from manure managment not on grazings </li>
<li>Emissions stemming from manure managment on grazings </li>
<li>Direct emissions from anorganic fertilizer application </li>
<li>Direct emissions from fertilizer application not including grassland </li>
<li>Direct emissions from atmosferic deposition </li>
<li>Mitrous oxide emissions during fertilizer production</li>
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<P>The different emissions are also reported aggregated to CO2 equivalens. It is planned to refine the calculation at grid level by taking e.g.
fertilizer application rates into account</P>
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<H3>Background information and documentation</H3>
<P class=“pubparagraph”><span class=“pubAuthor”>Perez I.</span>:<BR>
<I><a HREF=“http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=976050986&dok_var=d1&dok_ext=pdf&filename=976050986.pdf”>Greenhouse Gases: Inventories, Abatement Costs and
Markets for Emission Permits in European Agriculture - A Modelling Approach, Bonn 2005, 222 pages</a></I></P>
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<font size=1>Last Updated:Tuesday, October 28, 2008
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