Welcome to the collaboration space of CIERA, a community effort to improve emissions information within the Global Emissions InitiAtive (GEIA).
The goal of CIERA is to catalyze emissions research by facilitating:
- the consistent, timely, and transparent development of emissions inventories at all scales;
- evaluations and analyses of emissions datasets; and
- the exchange and communication of emissions information.
CIERA and its GEIA companion program ECCAD are part of the Air Quality Community of Practice, an international community working to enhance the interoperability of air quality and climate data, through the development of standardized data structures, conventions, and tools.
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Find
See a list of available global and regional emissions datasets.
Emissions datasets are developed, maintained and distributed by a large number of organizations. To avoid redundancy and facilitate access to the broad range of datasets available, CIERA is working to establish a distributed service model to locate and assess data resources. CIERA seeks to create common metadata and web services standards which will allow emissions data catalogs to be automatically created and updated. Improved metadata will help researchers locate and evaluate the appropriateness of the datasets.
Analyze
Access and compare emissions inventories, observations, and model output.
Establishing data and metadata standards creates a common language by which researchers can access and intercompare available datasets. Standards would allow the community to spend more time analyzing data instead of reformatting it.
Connect
Become an active part of the CIERA community.
Improving emissions datasets is a challenge that can only be met by the united efforts of the community.
- Want to contribute to CIERA? Become a member to connect with the emissions community.
- Is there an event the emissions community should attend? Add your event to the Calendar.
- Have a question? Post your question to the Forum.
- Looking for a publication? Check out the Bibliography, a collection of relevant documents and papers.
- Attend an interesting conference? Post a summary for the community in the Blog.
