Abstract:
The ELUM project was commissioned to provide greater understanding on the GHG and soil carbon changes arising as a result of direct land-use change (dLUC) to bioenergy crops, with a primary focus on the second-generation bioenergy crops Miscanthus, short rotation coppice (SRC) willow and short rotation forestry (SRF). The project was UK-bound, but with many outcomes which could be internationally relevant. Indirect land-use change impacts were out of scope. The aim of Work Package 4 (WP4) was to develop a bioenergy spatial modelling tool (ELUM software package) to allow non-specialist users to explore the consequences of land-use and land-management change arising from planting of energy crops on soil carbon and greenhouse gas emissions in the UK. This deliverable tests the accuracy of the ECOSSE model (from which the ELUM software package is derived) to simulate soil carbon and greenhouse gas fluxes, describes the uncertainties in the simulations and describes the ELUM meta-model itself.
Finally, an extensive description of the meta-model is given in this report, describing assumptions and constraints, as well as the structure of the look-up table. The benefits and limitations of the look-up table approach for the meta-model are reported below.
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Publication Year:
2014
Publisher:
ETI
Author(s):
Dondini, M., Pogson, M., Richards, M., Henner, D. and Smith, P.
Energy Category
Language:
English
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application/pdf
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2838015 B
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Further information:
N/A
Region:
United Kingdom
Related Dataset(s):
Ecosystem Land Use Modelling and Soil Carbon Flux Trial (ELUM)
Related Project(s):
Ecosystem Land-use Modelling (ELUM) & Soil Carbon Flux Field Trial