globalwarmingpotentials

Global Warming Potentials

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Global warming potentials of greenhouse gases.

GWP metrics included in this repository

100-year-GWP from IPCC reports

• Second Assessment Report (SAR) - SARGWP100 Data source
• Third Assessment Report (TAR) - TARGWP100 Data source, page 388 Table 6.7
• Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) - AR4GWP100 Data source
• Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) - AR5GWP100 Data source
• Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) - AR6GWP100 Data Source CSV file

20-year-GWP from IPCC reports

• Third Assessment Report (TAR) - TARGWP20 Data source, page 388 Table 6.7
• Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) - AR6GWP20 Data Source CSV file

500-year-GWP from IPCC reports

• Third Assessment Report (TAR) - TARGWP500 Data source, page 388 Table 6.7
• Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) - AR6GWP500 Data Source CSV file

100-year-GTP from IPCC reports

• Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) - AR6GTP100 Data Source CSV file

100-year-GWP including climate carbon cycle feedbacks

• Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) - AR5CCFGWP100 Data sources:
  • Table 8.SM.16
  • Table 8.7 (page 714)

CSV file

CSV file: globalwarmingpotentials.csv

Python

pip install globalwarmingpotentials

Example usage:

import globalwarmingpotentials as gwp

print(gwp.data["AR5GWP100"]["CH4"])  # prints '28'

df = gwp.as_frame()  # Returns a Pandas DataFrame

Node

npm install globalwarmingpotentials

Releasing

After running

make

to update the Python and JS libraries

running

make tag

and pushing with

git push origin main --tags

a new releases on PyPI and NPM will be published.