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Cowan, N.

Nitrous oxide emission factors of mineral fertilisers in the UK and Ireland (1999-2019)

https://doi.org/10.5285/9948d1b9-caa1-4894-93e6-cc0f4326fced Cite this dataset
Data from 38 experimental sites across the UK and Ireland were collated resulting in 623 separate mineral fertiliser N2O emission factors (EF) estimates derived from field measurements. Data were either i) extracted from published studies in which one aim of the experimentation was to explicitly measure N2O and report EFs after a mineral fertiliser application, or ii) raw data were used from the Agricultural and Environmental Data Archive (AEDA).

To find the published data, a survey of literature was conducted using Google Scholar for articles considered ‘recent’ (20 years or fewer), i.e. published after January 1998 and submitted before April 2019. The following search terms and their variations were used: N2O, nitrous oxide, emission factor, mineral fertiliser, ammonium nitrate, urea, nitrification inhibitor, nitrogen use efficiency, agriculture, greenhouse gas, grassland and arable. This search based on keywords was complemented with a search through the literature cited in the articles found and known previous research.
Publication date: 2021-04-08

Format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Tabular (text)
Spatial reference system
WGS 84

Temporal information

Temporal extent
1999-01-01    to    2019-12-31

Provenance & quality

Raw data extracted from the Agricultural and Environmental Data Archive (AEDA) was used to calculate emission factors (EFs) for 25 days after fertiliser application using the log-normal Bayesian approach as described in Levy et al., 2017, Cowan et al., 2019a, which accounts for the log-normal spatial and temporal distribution of N2O fluxes after fertiliser events. Fertilisers treated with nitrification and urease inhibitors in these studies were included for comparison.

Citations

Cowan, N., Carnell, E., Skiba, U., Dragosits, U., Drewer, J., Levy, P., 2020. Nitrous oxide emission factors of mineral fertilisers in the UK and Ireland: A Bayesian analysis of 20 years of experimental data. Environment International 135, 105366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2019.105366

Correspondence/contact details

Cowan, N.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Bush Estate
Penicuik
Midlothian
EH26 0QB
UNITED KINGDOM
 enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author

Cowan, N.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Other contacts

Rights holder
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk

Additional metadata

Topic categories
farming
INSPIRE theme
Environmental Monitoring Facilities
Keywords
agriculture , Agriculture , ammonium nitrate , arable farming , emission factor , grassland , greenhouse gas , mineral fertiliser , N2O , nitrification , nitrification inhibitor , nitrogen oxides , nitrogen use efficiency , nitrous oxide , urea
Funding
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Award: BB/N013468/1
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/S003614/1
Last updated
08 February 2024 17:26

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CITE AS: Cowan, N. (2021). Nitrous oxide emission factors of mineral fertilisers in the UK and Ireland (1999-2019). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/9948d1b9-caa1-4894-93e6-cc0f4326fced

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