[RegCNET] problem with emissions from EDGAR

[Peter Huszar]

Dear RegCM users.

I am comparing the anthropogenic emission of SO2, BC and OC used for
RegCM (EDGAR, taken from AERO.dat or AEROSOL.dat) with the ones I take
from EMEP and I found some discrepancies between to two data.

1) the magnitude of SO2 emission is o.k., but there is a significant
difference in spatial distribution of the emissions over Europe. E.g.
in the EDGAR data there are some emissions between Norway and Scotland
over the sea which is non-sense (see links to figures below).

2) there is a one order difference between the EMEP BC/OC emissions
and EDGAR emissions. The spatial distribution however seems to be o.k.

Can anybody explain/comment these differences?

Thanks a lot in advance

Peter Huszar
Charles University

ps: here are the files
EMEP SO2: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1067532/SO2emis_EXPaer.png
EDGAR SO2: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1067532/SO2emis_EXPint.png
EMEP BC: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1067532/BCemis_EXPaer.png
EDGAR BC: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1067532/BCemis_EXPint.png