gcb

Gcb

Name: Gcb
Creator: Gcb

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Metadata only. This source’s license does not permit redistribution, so we catalog its metadata but do not re-serve the data. Use the provider link to obtain it under the original terms.

Coverage

Series catalogued

3,092

Temporal coverage

1750-12-31 – 2024-12-31

Licensing & provenance

License: License under review
Redistribution: Not permitted (metadata only)
Commercial use: Restricted / no
Modification: Permitted

How to cite

Global Carbon Budget, Global Carbon Project (lead: University of Exeter / P. Friedlingstein et al.). Retrieved from https://globalcarbonbudget.org/. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download gcb series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/gcb.html
Update cadence: annual
Update strategy: overwrite if changed
Storage layout: multi-file under data/clean_full/gcb/: gcb_budget.parquet, gcb_national_fossil.parquet, gcb_luc.parquet, gcb_fossil_flat.parquet (all zstd). Common schema: series_key, obs_date(date32, Dec-31), value(float64). Each written by save() with a single pq.write_table (non-atomic).

Full description

Global Carbon Budget (GCB) 2024 ingest. Sources: Global Carbon Budget spreadsheet: https://globalcarbonbudget.org/download/1725/ National fossil CO2 emissions: https://globalcarbonbudget.org/download/1728/ National land-use change: https://globalcarbonbudget.org/download/1731/ GCP fossil flat CSV (Zenodo): https://zenodo.org/records/14106218 -> GCB2024v18_MtCO2_flat.csv Output: data/clean_full/gcb/gcb_budget.parquet data/clean_full/gcb/gcb_country.parquet Series key format: GCB:global:{var} – global budget aggregates (GtC/yr), 1959-2023 GCB:historical:{var} – historical budget (GtC/yr), 1750-2023 GCB:fossil_cat:{var} – global fossil by fuel category (MtC/yr), 1850-2023 GCB:ocean:{model} – ocean sink by model (GtC/yr) GCB:land:{model} – terrestrial sink by DGVM (GtC/yr) GCB:cement_carb:{model} – cement carbonation by model (GtC/yr) GCB:territorial:{country} – national territorial emissions (MtC/yr), 1850-2023 GCB:consumption:{country} – national consumption emissions (MtC/yr), 1990-2022 GCB:transfers:{country} – national emissions transfers (MtC/yr) GCB:luc_BLUE:{country} – LUC BLUE model by country (TgC/yr), 1850-2023 GCB:luc_HNC:{country} – LUC H&C2023 model by country GCB:luc_OSCAR:{country} – LUC OSCAR model by country GCB:luc_LUCE:{country} – LUC LUCE model by country GCB:fossil_flat:{country} – GCP flat CSV country fossil CO2 (MtCO2), redundant check Run: python jobs/ingest_gcb.py

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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