POPE emissions dataset now available

The Persitant Organic Pollutants Emission model (POPE) uses different global (Wang et al. 2014A, Prevedouros et al. 2006, Armitage et al. 2008) and regional (Pistocchi and Loos 2009, Filipovic et al. 2013) inventories for PFOA and PFOS to obtain a global, gridded (0.5° x 0.5° resolution) inventory for subsequent transport modelling. For this purpose these inventories are combined with airport, population and GDP datasets, as well as local measurements (Ahrens et al. 2010, Ahrens et al. 2015, Hansson et al. 2016) and factory data (Paustenbach et al. 2009) toobtain approximate local emissions. It considers airport firefighting, fluropolymer production and diffuse emissions of products containing PFOA and PFOS. Both, emissions to air and emissions to water are considered seperately. The inventory covers the timespan from the first commercial production in 1950 up to 2020 on a yearly basis.