Abstract
Key messageThe purpose of this report is to increase the transparency of applications of the CBM-CFS3 model by climate-related policy-makers and researchers. The report provides explicit information on the parametrization of a new Archive Index Database used with this model to simulate forest carbon dynamics in 26 EU countries. The database can be accessed athttps://data.europa.eu/89h/jrc-cbm-eu-aidb, primary metadata are available in Kull et al. (2017), and additional metadata are available athttps://metadata-afs.nancy.inra.fr/geonetwork/srv/fre/catalog.search#/metadata/df48155b-973f-4169-a722-100bb6bfc76c.The Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS3) has been adapted, tested, and applied to forests of 26 EU countries over the last 7 years for EU policy making and scientific research. The overall purpose of this exercise is to increase the transparency of how the EU Archive Index Database (EU-AIDB) was parameterized while supporting both the policy making and research communities interested in applying the CBM-CFS3 with ecological parameters specific to the EU context. In addition to preparing model input data reflecting various management and disturbance scenarios for CBM-CFS3 projects, an essential step was to update the original AIDB with information specific to the EU context and create an EU-AIDB. The AIDB is the Microsoft Access database behind the CBM-CFS3 that stores default ecological information and parameters pertaining to the forest ecosystems of a country, among other functions. The EU-AIDB incorporates 1034 spatial units resulting from the intersection of 204 European administrative regions and ecological boundaries representing 35 climatic units. It also contains updated parameters for 192 of the main tree species reported by the National Forest Inventories of each EU country. The release of this database allows CBM-33 CFS3 users in the EU to apply European administrative and ecological units and tree species in forest carbon modeling projects.
Highlights
Modeling a forest carbon budget is generally considered an essential prerequisite to providing projections on different possible management scenarios in order to optimize the role of the overall forest sector in mitigating climate change (IPCC 2014)
In the CBM-CFS3 interface, the default Canadian Archive Index Database (AIDB) can be replaced with the European Union (EU) Archive Index Database (EU-AIDB) for direct application to new CBM-CFS3 projects created for an EU country or region, i.e., by using the new administrative and ecological boundaries, and forest types implemented in the database
The EU-AIDB is designed for use by EU countries who wish to use the CBM-CFS3 to support policy development and research activities as it relates to forest ecosystem greenhouse gasses
Summary
Modeling a forest carbon budget is generally considered an essential prerequisite to providing projections on different possible management scenarios in order to optimize the role of the overall forest sector in mitigating climate change (IPCC 2014). For the purposes of analyzing the impact of human activities on the current and near-future forest carbon (C) stocks and fluxes, inventory-based models are the most appropriate tools (Karjalainen et al 2003). For this reason, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission has been applying and testing the Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBMCFS3), developed by Natural Resources Canada’s Canadian Forest Service (CFS), since 2009. The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission has been applying and testing the Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBMCFS3), developed by Natural Resources Canada’s Canadian Forest Service (CFS), since 2009 The model has already been applied and validated at regional and national scales in Canada (Kurz and Apps 1999; Kurz et al 2008a, b; Stinson et al 2011), and in other countries (e.g., the Russian Federation (Zamolodchikov et al 2008), and South-Korea (Kim et al 2016))
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