Gridded surface PM2.5 for the tropics from GEOS-Chem

GEOS-Chem v10-01, driven by 2012 GEOS-5 meteorology

Simulation year 2012. GEOS-Chem code are available at the GEOS-Chem website (http://acmg.seas.harvard.edu/geos_chem.html; last accessed 9 February 2021)

Original data described in Vohra et al., ER, 2021

Spatial grid resolution is 0.5° × 0.67° over most of the tropics, except South America and Australia where it is 2° × 2.5°

K. Vohra, A. Vodonos, J. Schwartz, E. A. Marais, M. P. Sulprizio, L. J. Mickley, Global mortality from outdoor fine particle pollution generated by fossil fuel combustion: Results from GEOS-Chem, Environ. Res., 195, 110754, doi:10.1016/j.envres.2021.110754, 2021.