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Ammonia emissions per 500 m grid cell in the Upper Rhine region (2021)
Produced as part of the Interreg Upper Rhine Atmo-Rhena PLUS project, this map shows ammonia (NH3) emissions in the Upper Rhine region in 2021.
Limiting air pollutant emissions is the most important lever for reducing pollutant concentrations in the atmosphere.
Ammonia is a gaseous compound in the atmosphere. At very high concentrations, this gas irritates the respiratory tract and eyes. At concentrations typically found in ambient air, its direct health effects are low, unlike its environmental effects (ammonia plays a major role in the acidification and eutrophication of natural environments). In addition, ammonia reacts with other substances in the atmosphere to form secondary fine particles.
Ammonia is mainly emitted by agriculture, primarily through fertiliser spreading and animal waste from livestock farming. In urban areas, the residential sector, waste management, certain industries and road transport are also responsible for ammonia emissions.
This map shows the distribution of annual ammonia emissions in the Upper Rhine Valley. These emissions are often linked to agricultural practices, particularly intensive livestock farming and the spreading of organic fertilisers. The foothills often have at least intermediate levels, reflecting moderate agricultural activity. Large urban areas appear to be relatively low in emissions.
The static map in PDF format is available at a scale of 500m. The data is accessible as open data only at the scale of EPCI, Kreis and Cantons.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 2025-08-07
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-11-07
- Citation identifier
- AtmoRhenaPlus_nh3_maille_500m
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role GeoRhena
Point of contact ATMO Grand Est
Custodian Landesanstalt für Umwelt Baden-Württemberg (LUBW)
Custodian Lufthygieneamt beider Basel
Custodian Landesamt für Umwelt Rheinland-Pfalz
Custodian Office de l'environnement - République et Canton du Jura
Custodian Departement Bau, Verkehr und Umwelt - Kanton Aargau
Custodian
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Theme
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Upper Rhine
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Crossborder
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- Use limitation
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CC-BY Licence ©OpenStreetMap contributors ©GeoRhena
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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No other limitation
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 50000
- Language
- Français
- Language
- Deutsch
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Health
- Begin date
- 2020-01-01
- End date
- 2021-12-31
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Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name OGC:WMS
https://portailsig.atmo-grandest.eu/server/services/Flux_Atmorhenaplus/atmo_rhena_plus_emi_nh3/MapServer/WMSServer 0
OGC:WFS
https://portailsig.atmo-grandest.eu/server/services/Flux_Atmorhenaplus/atmo_rhena_plus_emi_nh3/MapServer/WFSServer Ammonia Emmissions
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://atmo-rhena.eu/ Upper Rhine Air Quality Portal
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
https://www.georhena.eu/sites/default/files/Cartes/Emi_nh3_cadastre_500m_A6.pdf Ammonia emissions per 500m mesh
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.atmo-grandest.eu/publications/atmo-rhena-plus-ammoniac-un-polluant-sous-surveillance Brochure on NH3 measurements in the Upper Rhine
OnLine resource
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related
https://plateforme.atmo-grandest.eu/projets/atmo-rhena-plus.php Upper Rhine Air-Climate-Energy Dashboard
- Hierarchy level
- staticMap
- Statement
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Collection of estimated emissions for the Grand Est region (ATMO Grand Est), Baden-Württemberg (Landesanstalt für Umwelt Baden-Württemberg – LUBW), the cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft (Lufthygienamt Beider Basel – LHA), Rhineland-Palatinate (Landesamt für Umwelt Rheinland-Pfalz – LfU), the Canton of Jura (Office de l'environnement - ENV Jura) and the Canton of Aargau (Departement Bau, Verkehr und Umwelt – BVU Aargau). Data for the cantons of Jura, Aargau and Solothurn were recorded based on cantonal or municipal data.
Metadata
- File identifier
- b083f353-9c12-4001-a409-3d78e854a604 XML
- Metadata language
- Français
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- staticMap
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-10T09:31:13.912185Z
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role GeoRhena: Geographical Information System of the Upper Rhine
Point of contact
- Other language
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Language Character encoding English UTF8 German UTF8 French UTF8
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