The FullCAM Carbon Accounting Model : Development , Calibration and Implementation

In developing Australia’s National Carbon Accounting System (NCAS) the Australian Greenhouse Office (AGO) has undertaken ambitious national resource and activity inventories within an accounting framework that benefits from a comprehensive and integrated suite of remote sensing and carbon modelling activities. The result is a fine scale spatial application of a comprehensive carbon cycle model which is an integration of a range of existing models. The model developed, named FullCAM, is an integration of biomass, decomposition, soil carbon models and accounting tools to provide a single model capable of carbon accounting in transitional (e.g. afforestation, reforestation and deforestation) and mixed (e.g. agroforestry) systems. The FullCAM model can be run in point, estate (a mix of areas by age by activity types) and a spatial mode which will integrate information drawn from the remotely sensed land-cover-change program, productivity and climate surfaces and other ancillary data to perform the various accounting routines capable of meeting the various reporting requirements of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and more specifically, the Kyoto Protocol.

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