Last reviewed on November 2, 2011 at 10:05
Documentation of California's Greenhouse Gas Inventory
(First Edition - Last updated on 11/19/2007)
♦ Category: Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use
IPCC: |
3B1 - Land - Forest Land |
Sector: |
Agriculture & Forestry : Forest and Range Management |
♦ Activity: Fire - Forest
♦ Greenhouse gas: Nitrous oxide ( N2O )
► Year 1990 —
● Greenhouse gas emission estimate —
Amount: |
40.49 tonnes of N2O Emitted (12,553 tonnes CO2 Eq.) |
Basis: |
Model |
Calculation: |
1990-1994 extrapolation from land use and forestry models |
Reference: |
CEC (2006). Inventory of California Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990 to 2004. CEC Publication CEC-600-2006-013-SF. Linear extrapolation to 1990 from 1994 using -0.1707% per year forest land decline between 1953 to 1994 trend from p. 14 in Shih (1998): The Land Base of California's Forests. CDF-Forest and Range Assessment Program (FRAP). |
● Activity level used in calculations —
Activity: |
|
Basis: |
None |
Reference: |
Not Applicable. |
● Parameters and Constants used in calculations —
Parameter: |
Not applicable |
Constant: |
Global warming potential of N2O = 310 |
Reference: |
IPCC (1996). Second Assessment Report. Climate Change 1995: WG I - The Science of Climate Change. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; J.T. Houghton, L.G. Meira Filho, B.A. Callander, N. Harris, A. Kattenberg, and K. Maskell (eds.); Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, U.K. |
● Greenhouse gas emitted per unit activity —