Global emissions of HCl and particulate Cl from continental sources (GT-Chlorine). Reference: Zhang, B., Shen, H., Yun, X., Zhong, Q., Henderson, B. H., Wang, X., Shi, L., Gunthe, S. S., Huey, L. G., Tao, S., Russell, A. G., & Liu, P. (2022). Global Emissions of Hydrogen Chloride and Particulate Chloride from Continental Sources. Environmental Science & Technology, 56(7), 3894-3904. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c05634 Contact: Bingqing Zhang (bzhang419@gatech.edu) Pengfei Liu (pengfei.liu@eas.gatech.edu) The detailed sectors and sources are listed below. 1. Energy production (ene), including coal combustion, solid biomass combustion, municipal and industrial waste combustion in energy production processes. 2. Industrial processes (ind), including coal combustion (excluding coal used in coke and brick production), solid biomass combustion, municipal and industrial waste combustion, bituminous coal used in brick production and coke production in industrial processes 3. Residential processes (res), including coal combustion, indoor biofuel (charcoal, firewood, brushwood, straw, dung cake) combustion in residential processes. 4. Open waste burning (wstop), 5. Open biomass burning (bbop), including open burning of savanna, forest, and peat. 6. Agricultural processes (agri), including open burning of agricultural residue. Release notes: v0.1.0 Initial Beta version of HCl and pCl emissions in 2014 (Cl_emission_01_01_2014) Prepared for EPA. v0.1.1 - changes Adjust waste collection fraction for open waste burning calculation. Identify urban and rural area for waste open burning calculation based on HYDE3.2 population data (the former file used urban ratio and population density to identify urban area). v0.1.2. -02/26/2021 - changes Correct the missing data issue from energy and industrial sectors in China and other countries caused by NaN in waste combustion calculation. Recalculate and regridded the open burning activity data based on GPW4 population (the former file used HYDE3.2 population). Separate agricultural residue burning emission from biomass open burning emissions (bbop) as an individual sector, agricultural processes(agri). Adjust the emission factor of coal combustion. - notes 1. Most of the activity data provided by PKU-FUEL are gridded based on Landscan population, the activity data of open waste burning in this emission inventory is gridded based on GPW population. 2. Emissions of some types of fuel combustions (such as natural gas, oil, diesel, etc) which have much smaller Cl content than coal are not considered in this version. v0.1.3. -03/05/2021 -changes Update the coal consumption data in energy sector of the following countries: 154(Papua New Guinea), 161(Puerto Rico), 58(Dominica),1(Afghanistan), Update coal Cl content data of the following countries: 44(Colombia) Update coal consumption data in industrial sector of the following countries 94 (Iraq), 91(India), 89(Hungary),92(Indonesia),99(Japan), - notes 1. Most of the activity data provided by PKU-FUEL are gridded based on Landscan population, the activity data of waste open burning in this emission inventory is gridded based on GPW population. 2. The emissions of some sectors are 0 in some countries, due to 0 value of activity data reported by IEA. 3. Emissions of some types of fuel combustions (such as natural gas, oil, diesel, etc) which have much smaller Cl content than coal are not considered in this version. 4. Coal trade data before 1980 is unavailable so we assume no coal trade before 1980; 5. The emissions in industrial sector might be overestimated in some countries due to large uncertainty in coke production and brick production processes (e.g. Philippines, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Denmark) 6. There is a sudden increase in emissions from waste incineration in 1970-1971 due to lack of data before 1970; v0.1.4 -04/30/2021 - changes Update emissions from industrial sectors in China with the S-shape curves from Zhong, Q et al., 2019 - notes Same as the last version v0.1.5 -05/12/2021 - changes Update charcoal burning activity data in the residential sector Reverse coordinate vector 'lat' from monotonically decreasing to monotonically increasing v0.1.6 -01/23/2022 -changes (based on the reviewer's comments) (energy and industrial sectors) Update the installation rate of air pollution control device by considering the effect of wet FGD, Cyclone, wet scrubber, fabric filter baghouse, while the previous version considered only FGD and ESP; (open waste burning sector) Update the emission factor for open waste burning, use country-specific emission factors based on the waste composition (industrial sector) Update the activity data for brick production, The extremely high brick production in the 1900s in China was corrected based on the Chinese building industrial material yearbook. The extremely high brick production in other countries such as Japan and Russia are scaled based on preliminary estimates. (industrial sector) Update the calculation method for industrial processes including brick production and coke production - know issue 1,2,3,4,6 are the same as the previous version The uncertainty of data in other countries are still large with little data for reference. v1.0.0 -06/29/2022 Published version, same as v0.1.6 with some format changes: Rename the dataset to GT_Chlorine_01_01_$YEAR_v1.0.0.nc Change the data taype of scale_factors and add_offset in nc files from long to double.