Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment (APnA) city program – Data Resources


The following list the main sources of data and maps that we used to compile the emissions inventory, meteorology and model air pollution dispersion for the cities under the APnA city program

Emissions Inventory:

Industry:

Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Annual Survey of Industries http://www.csoisw.gov.in/cms/En/1023-annual-survey-of-industries.aspx
Ministry of Steel http://steel.gov.in/annual-reports
Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers http://fert.nic.in/page/publication-reports
Ministry of Mines http://www.mines.nic.in/ViewData/index?mid=1385
Ministry of Heavy Industry and Public Enterprise http://dhi.nic.in/ViewData/index?mid=1117
Cement Manufacturers Association, http://www.cmaindia.org/annual-report.html
IndiaStat.com

Power Plants:

CEA, 2011. Review of Performance of Thermal Power Stations, Central Electricity Authority, Ministry of Power, Government of India, New Delhi, India.
CEA, 2012. All India Electricity Statistics – General Review 2012, Central Electricity Authority, Ministry of Power, Government of India, New Delhi, India.
Individual State Electricity Board and Load Dispatch Centers

Transport:

National Transport Development Policy Committee (NTDPC), India Transport Report : Moving India to 2032
Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, http://morth.nic.in/
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, http://petroleum.nic.in
Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, City Development Plans, http://jnnurm.nic.in/citywise-cdp.html
Police station registration statistics
IndiaStat.com

Rail/Aviation/Shipping:

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)/Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), release EDGARv4.2 FT2012, http://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu, 2014.

Domestic:

Census-India, 2012. Census of India, 2011. The Governement of India, New Delhi, India.
GRUMP, 2010. Gridded Population of the World and Global Rural and Urban Mapping Project. Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) of the Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, U. S. A.
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation http://mospi.nic.in/
MODIS Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500 m SIN Grid: MCD12Q1 https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/dataset_discovery/modis/modis_products_table/mcd12q1

Waste Burning:

National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modelling, FIRE EMISSION FACTORS AND EMISSION INVENTORIES: Emissions from Open Waste Burning http://bai.acom.ucar.edu/Data/fire/data/TrashEmis.zip
Sustainable Solid Waste Management in India, Ranjith Kharvel Annepu http://swmindia.blogspot.in

Generator:

Census-India, 2012. Census of India, 2011. The Governement of India, New Delhi, India.
GRUMP, 2010. Gridded Population of the World and Global Rural and Urban Mapping Project. Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) of the Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, U. S. A.
MODIS, Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500 m SIN Grid: MCD12Q1, https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/dataset_discovery/modis/modis_products_table/mcd12q1
Data from Individual State Load Dispatch Centres

Field and Forest Fires:

National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modelling, Fire INventory from NCAR (FINN), Version 1.5, Wiedinmyer et al., Geoscientific Model Development, 2011, www.geosci-model-dev.net/4/625/2011/gmd-4-625-2011.html
FINN emissions inventory is also available for download @ UCAR

Dust Storms:

GOCART Method on Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled to Chemistry (WRF-Chem) https://ruc.noaa.gov/wrf/wrf-chem/

Boundary Conditions:

National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modelling, Global Chemistry Modelling, MOZART: MODEL FOR OZONE AND RELATED CHEMICAL TRACERS https://www2.acom.ucar.edu/gcm/mozart

Followed by India Specific runs on CAMx by UrbanEmissions.info

Emission Factors:

GAINS, 2017. Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollution Interactions and Synergies – South Asia Program. International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria.
Trends in multi-pollutant emissions from a technology-linked inventory for India: II. Residential, agricultural and informal industry sectors (Atmospheric Environment, 2014) www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231014007742

Meteorology: 

Weather Research and Forecasting Model, http://www.wrf-model.org/index.php
The Global Forecast System (GFS), National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/model-data/model-datasets/global-forcast-system-gfs

Monitoring Data:

National Ambient Monitoring Program (NAMP), operated and maintained by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB, New Delhi, India)
Openaq.org aggregates monitoring data from stations across the globe. It allows you to download data for select station or city or time period.