GC14A:
Advances in Monitoring and Reporting Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions and Sinks Across Land Use Categories I


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Session ID#: 58873

Session Description:
The demand for spatially and temporally resolved activity data, along with improved measurement and modeling approaches to estimate GHG emissions and removals from the land sector continues to grow. The need is driven by carbon markets (e.g., California’s Cap-and-Trade Program), international reporting requirements, and new standards established through policy programs (e.g., the global stock-take associated with the Paris Agreement). Furthermore, the continuing efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD+) also drives this demand, along with interest in the 4 per mille soil carbon initiative. This session focuses on scientific advancements in support of monitoring, reporting, and verification of anthropogenic GHG emissions and removals across all land use categories. Advancements in monitoring will improve reporting of GHG emissions and sinks, informing scientists, policy makers, and land managers about the impact of existing land use policies and practices, and will help to inform future mitigation activities.
Primary Convener:  Thomas Charles Wirth, Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Thomas Charles Wirth, Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States and Stephen M Ogle, Reston, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Grant M Domke, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States
Chairs:  Grant M Domke, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States and Thomas Charles Wirth, Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Grant M Domke, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Future forest carbon sink dynamics in the southern United States under climate change: great effects of disturbances and forest aging (422772)
Wen J. Wang1, Frank Thompson2, Hong S. He3, Jacob S Fraser1, William D. Dijak4 and Todd Jones-Farrand5, (1)University of Missouri Columbia, School of Natural Resources, Columbia, MO, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Columbia, MO, United States, (3)University of Missouri, School of Natural Resources, Columbia, MO, United States, (4)USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Columbia, MO, United States, (5)Gulf Coastal Plains & Ozarks Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Columbia, MO, United States
A Global Analysis of Woody Aboveground Carbon Storage in Crop and Pasture lands (403365)
Melissa Chapman1, Wayne S Walker2, Susan Cook-Patton3, Alessandro Baccini2, Mary Farina2 and Bronson Griscom4, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, (3)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, Edgewater, MD, United States, (4)TNC, Arlington, VA, United States
Comprehensive Effects of Land Use Change and Disturbances on Forest Aboveground Biomass Dynamics in the Northern USA (397843)
Wu MA, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States, Grant M Domke, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States, Christopher W Woodall, US Forest Service St. Paul, St. Paul, United States and Anthony W D'Amato, University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, Burlington, United States
Advancing the monitoring of forest degradation in support of inventories of carbon emissions (448831)
Shijuan Chen1, Pontus Olofsson, PhD2, Eric Bullock3 and Curtis E Woodcock1, (1)Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, United States, (2)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)US Forest Service, Ogden, United States
Improved empirical estimates of drivers of in-forest carbon flux at sub-state levels in the West Coast USA (422022)
Andrew N Gray1, Glenn A Christensen2, Vicente J Monleon3, Jeremy S Fried4, Olaf Kuegler4 and Jacob L Strunk5, (1)USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, United States, (3)US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR, United States, (5)USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Olympia, United States
Toward estimating greenhouse gas emissions and removals on managed forest land in Alaska, USA (413504)
Grant M Domke, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States, Brian F Walters, USDA Forest Service, Saint PAUL, United States, Stephen M Ogle, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States and James Smith, Northern Research Station, Durham, NH, United States
Reconciling Global Model Estimates and Country Reporting of Anthropogenic Forest CO2 Sinks (438246)
Giacomo Grassi1, Alessandro Cescatti2, Joanna House3, Werner A Kurz4, Glen P Peters5, Richard A Houghton6, Maria sanz Sanchez7, Raul Abad Viñas8, Ramdane Alkama9, Almut Arneth10, Alberte Bondeau11, Frank Dentener Dr8, Marianela Fader12, Sandro Federici13, Pierre Friedlingstein14, Atul K Jain15, Etsushi Kato16, Donna Lee17, Julia Nabel18, Lucia Perugini19, Alexander Nassikas6, Simone Rossi8, Stephen Sitch14, Nicolas Viovy20, Andy Wiltshire21, Sönke Zaehle22 and Charlie Koven23, (1)European Commission Joint Research Centre, Directorate for Sustainable Resources, Ispra, VA, Italy, (2)European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra VA, Italy, (3)University of Bristol, School of Geographical Science, Bristol, United Kingdom, (4)Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, BC, Canada, (5)Center for International Climate and Environmental Research Oslo, Oslo, Norway, (6)Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, (7)Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Bilbao, Spain, (8)European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, (9)European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, (10)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, (11)IMBE (Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, Université Avignon), Aix en Provence, France, (12)International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change, Koblenz, Germany, (13)FAO, Rome, Italy, (14)University of Exeter, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, Exeter, United Kingdom, (15)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States, (16)National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan, (17)Climate and Land Use Alliance, Washington, DC, United States, (18)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (19)Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), Division on Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services (IAFES), Viterbo, Italy, (20)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, (21)Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom, (22)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, (23)Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,, Berkeley, CA, United States

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