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Documentation of California's Greenhouse Gas Inventory (First Edition - Last updated on 11/19/2007)

♦ Category: Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use

IPCC: 3C2 - Aggregate Sources and Non-CO2 Emissions Sources on Land - Liming
Sector: Agriculture & Forestry : Ag Soil Management : Liming

♦ Activity: Limestone applied to soils -

♦ Greenhouse gas: Carbon dioxide ( CO2 )

► Year 1990 —

● Greenhouse gas emission estimate —

Amount: 72,075 tonnes of CO2 Emitted (72,075 tonnes CO2 Eq.)
Basis: Calculation
Calculation: [Limestone applied to soils] * [limestone C emission factor] * [Molecular weight ratio of CO2 to C]
Reference: CEC (2002). Inventory of California Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-1999. Publication #600-02-001F. November 2002. California Energy Commission, Sacramento. http://www.energy.ca.gov/reports/600-02-001F/2002-09-14_600-02-001F.PDF

● Activity level used in calculations —

Activity: Limestone applied to soils = 163,917,608,053 g (i.e. 163.92 thousand tonnes)
Basis: Calculation
Calculation: [Total lime applied to ag soils in CA] * [Total limestone sold or used in CA] / ([Total limestone sold or used in CA] + [Total dolomite sold or used in CA])
Reference: CEC (2002). Inventory of California Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-1999. Publication #600-02-001F. November 2002. California Energy Commission, Sacramento. http://www.energy.ca.gov/reports/600-02-001F/2002-09-14_600-02-001F.PDF

● Parameters and Constants used in calculations —

Parameter: Limestone C emission factor = 0.12 g / g
Reference: IPCC (2006) 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Prepared by the National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programmed, Eggleston HAS., Biennia L., Miwa K., Negara T. and Tanabe K. (eds). Vol.4, Chap. 10. Published: IGES, Japan. http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/pdf/4_Volume4/V4_11_Ch11_N2O&CO2.pdf
Parameter: Total dolomite sold or used in CA = 104,708,333,333 g (i.e. 104.71 thousand tonnes)
Reference: DATA NOT AVAILABLE - Value for this year is extrapolated using the 1991-1999 trend line.
Parameter: Total lime applied to ag soils in CA = 164,869,821,387 g (i.e. 164.87 thousand tonnes)
Reference: DATA NOT AVAILABLE - Value for this year is extrapolated using the 1992-2000 trend line.
Parameter: Total limestone sold or used in CA = 18,024,888,888,889 g (i.e. 18.02 million tonnes)
Reference: DATA NOT AVAILABLE - Value for this year is extrapolated using the 1991-1999 trend line.
Constant: Molecular weight ratio of CO2 to C = 3.664191096
Reference: IUPAC (2006). ATOMIC WEIGHTS OF THE ELEMENTS 2005 (IUPAC TECHNICAL REPORT). Pure Appl. Chem., Vol. 78, No. 11, pp. 2051–2066, 2006.

● Greenhouse gas emitted per unit activity —

Amount: 0.44 g of CO2 per g