The FullCAM Carbon Accounting Model (Version 3.0) User Manual

Gary Richards, David Evans, Ainslie Reddin and Jim Leitch, March 2005

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Download the complete FullCAM Carbon Accounting Model (Version 3.0) User Manual
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Download Section A - General Information
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Download Section B - Plot, Estate and Spatial Simulations
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Download Section C - Menu Bar
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Download Sections D & E - Notes Page, Configuration Tab
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Download Sections F & G - Timing Tab, Site Tab
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Download Section H - Tree and Crop Species Tabs
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Download Sections I to M - Soil, Initial Conditions, Mulch, Minerals and Events Tabs
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Download Sections N, O, P and Appendix A - Risk Variables and Sensitivity Analysis Tabs, Data Builder, The FullCAM Model
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Abstract

The FullCAM User Manual provides a visual reference guide to using FullCAM Version 3.0. The FullCAM Functional Specification provides full details of the technical capacity of the model (FullCAM Version 3.0) and its calculations. It is recommended that both reports be viewed in conjunction with the online help provided in FullCAM Version 3.0.

FullCAM is a fully integrated Carbon Accounting Model (CAM) for estimating and predicting all biomass, litter and soil carbon pools in forest and agricultural systems. It integrates a suite of verifiable component models, including: CAMFor, CAMAg, 3PG, GENDEC and RothC to account for changes in major greenhouse gases, nitrogen cycling and human-induced land use practices (see modelling details). FullCAM was developed under the National Carbon Accounting System and is the model used to construct Australia's national greenhouse gas emissions account for the land sector. Users of the model can determine project-based results on a similar basis to Australia's official recording of greenhouse emissions trends for land use and land use change.

FullCAM Version 3.0 released with the National Carbon Accounting Toolbox Version 1.0 accounts for carbon stock changes associated with land use and management. Capacity to account for nitrogen cycling, as documented in this manual and functional specification, exists in research editions of FullCAM and will be incorporated into subsequent versions of the Toolbox.