CBM-CFS3

CBM-CFS3: the operational-scale Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector, is a Windows-based software modelling framework for stand- and landscape-level forest ecosystem carbon accounting. It is used to calculate forest carbon stocks and stock changes for the past (monitoring) or into the future (projection). It can be used to create, simulate and compare various forest management scenarios in order to assess impacts on carbon. It is compliant with requirements under the Kyoto Protocol and with the Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (2003) report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

It is the central model of the Government of Canada's National Forest Carbon Monitoring, Accounting and Reporting System (NFCMARS).

The CBM-CFS3 is developed and supported by Natural Resources Canada's Canadian Forest Service (CFS) and the Canadian Model Forest Network.

The CBM-CFS3 is distributed at no charge by the Canadian Forest Service through the Forest Carbon Accounting web site.

ee also

*Carbon accounting

External links

* [http://carbon.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/ Forest Carbon Accounting Web Site]
* [http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/ Natural Resources Canada Web Site]
* [http://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/?lang=en/ Canadian Forest Service Web Site]
* [http://www.modelforest.net/ The Canadian Model Forest Network Web Site]
* [http://nofc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/bookstore_pdfs/28106.pdf CBM-CFS3 User's Guide]
* [http://nofc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/bookstore_pdfs/28137.pdf MBC-SFC3 Guide de l'utilisateur]
* [http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/gpglulucf/gpglulucf.htm Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry]