Landscape-scale, Tier 3, carbon monitoring sites for improving large-scale mapped estimates of carbon stocks and fluxes

Kristofer Johnson, USDA Forest Service, kristoferdjohnson@fs.fed.us (Presenter)
Richard Birdsey, USDA Forest Service, rbirdsey@fs.fed.us
Kenneth Clark, USDA Forest Service, kennethclark@fs.fed.us
John Hom, USDA Forest Service, jhom@fs.fed.us
Kevin Mccullough, USDA Forest Service, kevinmccullough@fs.fed.us
Yude Pan, USDA Forest Service, ypan@fs.fed.us
Nicholas Skowronski, USDA Forest Service, nskowronski@fs.fed.us
Craig Wayson, USDA Forest Service, cwayson.silvacarbon@gmail.com

Tier 3 approaches to estimating CO2 emissions are valuable for understanding local carbon cycle processes that improve large-scale Tier 1 and 2 approaches. Yet, practical application of Tier 3 data to larger (i.e. more general) scales remains a challenge, partly because of issues related to scaling and sampling frequency. To address some of these issues, a network of landscape scale (~1-km2) Intensive Monitoring Sites was begun in 2004. The sites incorporate flux tower measurements and a dense array of biometric measurement plots that facilitate the scaling of carbon pool and flux estimations. Data from these sites, and their published interpretations, are now available to validate national scale maps. We present comparison results to Tier 1 and 2 biomass and flux maps.

Presentation: 2013_Poster_Johnson_4_92.pdf (1345k)

Presentation Type:  Poster

Session:  Poster Session 1-B   (Tue 4:30 PM)

Associated Project(s): 

• Related Activity or Previously Funded TE Activity

Poster Location ID: 4