EmissV (version 0.666.0.0)

hourly: Temporal hourly emission profiles by sector for Brazil

Description

Set of hourly profiles that represents the mean activity for each hour (local time) of the week (currently the profile have the same emissions for different week days).

ENE

Energy sector

IND_FUEL

Industry and Fuel production sectors

RES_COM

Residential and Comercial sectors

AGR

Agriculture sector

REF

Oil refineryes and ships (constant)

AW

Waste Burn

TRO_PC

Passanger cars

TRO_HGV

Heavy Duty vehicles

Usage

data(hourly)

Format

A list of data frames with activity by hour and weekday.

Details

profiles from Schuch et al. (2026A) based on profiles from Europe and modifications considering local data from Brazil.

References

Daniel Schuch, Y. Zhang, S. Ibarra-Espinosa, M. F. Andradede, M. Gavidia-Calderónd, and M. L. Belle. Multi-Year Evaluation and Application of the WRF-Chem Model for Two Major Urban Areas in Brazil - Part I: Initial Application and Model Improvement. Atmospheric Environment, 2026A. doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2025.121577

Examples

# load the data
data(hourly)
# plot the data
colors <- c("#A60026","#EF603D","#d1b64b","#8eb63b",
            "#56B65F","#AAAAAA","#7bc2f0","#992299")

plot(hourly$ENE$Sun,ty = "l", ylim = c(0,3),axe = FALSE,xlab='',
     ylab='',col = colors[1], lwd = 2,
     main = "Hourly emission profile by sector")
points(hourly$ENE$Sun,col = colors[1], pch = 20, cex = 2)
lines(hourly$IND_FUEL$Sun, col = colors[2], lwd = 2)
points(hourly$IND_FUEL$Sun,col = colors[2], pch = 20, cex = 2)
lines(hourly$RES_COM$Sun, col = colors[3], lwd = 2)
points(hourly$RES_COM$Sun,col = colors[3], pch = 20, cex = 2)
lines(hourly$AGR$Sun, col = colors[4], lwd = 2)
points(hourly$AGR$Sun,col = colors[4], pch = 20, cex = 2)
lines(hourly$REF$Sun, col = colors[5], lwd = 2)
points(hourly$REF$Sun,col = colors[5], pch = 20, cex = 2)
lines(hourly$WB$Sun, col = colors[6], lty = 1, lwd = 2)
lines(hourly$TRO_PC$Sun, col = colors[7], lwd = 2)
points(hourly$TRO_PC$Sun,col = colors[7], pch = 20, cex = 2)
lines(hourly$TRO_HGV$Sun, col = colors[8], lty = 1, lwd = 2)
points(hourly$TRO_HGV$Sun,col = colors[8], pch = 20, cex = 2)

axis(1,at=0.5+c(0,6,12,18,24),
     labels = c("00:00","06:00","12:00","18:00","00:00"))
axis(2,at=c(0,0.5,1.0,1.5,2.0, 2.5, 3.0))
legend('topleft',legend = c('energy production',
                            'industrial / fuel exploitation',
                            'food and paper production / residential',
                            'agriculture',
                            'oil refineries / ship',
                            'waste burn',
                            'TRO non high-emitters',
                            'TRO high-emitters'),
    bty = 'n', lty = c(1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1),
    col = colors, lwd = 2, cex = 1.2)
mtext('Intensity',2,cex = 1.5, line = 2.6)
mtext('hour (Local)',1,cex = 1.5, line = 2.6)