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Deposition scenarios from Baltic Sea ship traffic with scrubbers

SND-ID: ECDS 0245

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Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Björn Claremar - Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences

Anna Rutgersson - Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences

Description

A change in regulation for maximum sulfur content in maritime fuel, in 2015 from 1 to 0.1 %, decreases the atmospheric sulfur concentration and deposition significantly. However, due to costs related to refining, the cleaning of exhausts through scrubbers has become a possible economic solution. Open-loop scrubbers meet the air quality criteria but their consequences for the marine environment are largely unknown. The resulting potential of future acidification in the Baltic Sea, both from atmospheric deposition and from scrubber water along the shipping lanes, based on different assumptions about sulfur content in fuel, scrubber usage, and increased shipping density has been assessed. This database contains shipping and scrubber scenarios for atmospheric deposition and scrubber exhaust from the period 2011 to 2050.

When using this dataset, please also cite: Claremar B., K. Haglund, A. Rutgersson. Ship Emissions and the use of current air cleaning technology: Contributions to air pollution and acidification in the Baltic Sea. Accepted for publication in Earth Syst. Dynam., 8, 1–19, 2017.

Language

English

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Uppsala University

Responsible department/unit

Department of Earth Sciences

Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Time period(s) investigated

2011 – 2050

Geographic coverage
Topic and keywords

Research area

Earth and Related Environmental Sciences, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Climatology / Meteorology / Atmosphere (INSPIRE topic categories)

Keywords

nitric acid, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, sulfate, transportation, acid deposition

Publications

Claremar B., K. Haglund, A. Rutgersson. Ship Emissions and the use of current air cleaning technology: Contributions to air pollution and acidification in the Baltic Sea. Accepted for publication in Earth Syst. Dynam., 8, 1–19, 2017.
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Dataset
Deposition scenarios from Baltic Sea ship traffic with scrubbers

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Citation

Björn Claremar, Anna Rutgersson. Uppsala University (2018). Deposition scenarios from Baltic Sea ship traffic with scrubbers. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5879/ecds/2017-10-10.1/1

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Björn Claremar - Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences

Anna Rutgersson - Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences

Time period(s) investigated

2011 – 2050

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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Published: 2018-06-21
Last updated: 2019-06-11