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Home of The GEFSOC Modelling System
Assessment of soil organic carbon stocks and change at national scale This project was coordinated by The University of Reading, UK. Development of the GEFSOC modelling system was headed by NREL, Colorado State University, USA, who are now managing the system and associated data sets. Project No: GFL/2740-02-4381 This project developed a system (The GEFSOC Modelling System) for estimating soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks and changes under changing land use and climate scenarios. The system was developed using data sets from 4 contrasting eco-regions; The Brazilian Amazon, Jordan, Kenya and the Indian part of the Indo-Gangetic Plains. The system makes estimates of SOC change using 2 process based models (Century and RothC) and the computational IPCC method. GEFSOC Project results feature in a new WMO book chapter The GEFSOC Project Special Issue of AGEE Join the GEFSOC System List Serve mailing lists Read about the implementation status of the project on the GEF website Downloading - The GEFSOC Modelling System
Specific research objectives of the project included (i) identify and use long-term experimental datasets to systematically evaluate and refine modelling techniques to quantify carbon sequestration potential in tropical soils; (ii) define, collate and format national-scale soils, climate and land-use datasets and to use them in the development of coupled modelling-GIS tools to estimate soil carbon stocks; (iii) demonstrate these tools by estimating current soil organic carbon stocks at country-scale (using India, Jordan, Kenya and Amazon-Brazil as case studies) and to compare these estimates with the existing techniques of combining soil mapping units and interpolating point data; and (iv) quantify the impact of defined changes in land use on carbon sequestration in soils with a view to assisting in the formulation of improved policies to optimise resource use in the four case-study countries Brazil, India, Jordan and Kenya.
This project ran from June 2002 - July 2005. Production of project literature, dissemination of results and development of the GEFSOC Modelling System continues. Contents author Eleanor Milne. Web design by Dean Selby |
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