Carbon storage and carbon-equivalent albedo impact for US forests, by age and forest type

<p>These tables document estimates of carbon storage (Mg/ha +/- Standard Error) and carbon-equivalent albedo impacts (same units) of US forests by age and forest type (Healey et al., in review).&nbsp; Carbon estimates are derived from field measurements made by the USDA Forest Service on approximately 125,000 forested field plots (Domke et al., 2022).&nbsp; Soil organic carbon is omitted from these estimates, but all other above- and below-ground pools are included.&nbsp; Albedo impacts (time-dependent emissions equivalent, TDEE; Bright et al., 2016) were developed by applying atmospheric kernels (Bright and O&#39;Halloran) to a new Landsat blue sky albedo product for the Landsat archive (Erb et al., 2022), as described by Healey et al. (in review).&nbsp; Standard error is supplied for each age/forest type bin for carbon storage, but upper and lower standard error bounds are specified for TDEE because log transformation creates an asymmetrical uncertainty envelope.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Bright, Bogren, Bernier, Astrup, (2016). Carbon-equivalent metrics for albedo changes in land management contexts: Relevance of the time dimension. <em>Ecol. Appl.</em> 26, 1868&ndash;1880</p> <p>Bright, R. M., &amp; O&#39;Halloran, T. L. (2019). Developing a monthly radiative kernel for surface albedo change from satellite climatologies of Earth&#39;s shortwave radiation budget: CACK v1. 0. <em>Geoscientific Model Development, </em>12(9), 3975-3990.</p> <p>Domke, Walters, Nowak, Greenfield, Smith, Nichols, Ogle, Coulston, Wirth (2022). Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals From Forest Land, Woodlands, Urban Trees, and Harvested Wood Products in the United States, 1990&ndash;2020. (US Dept. Ag. For. Service, Madison, WI; <a href="https://doi.org/10.2737/FS-RU-382">https://doi.org/10.2737/FS-RU-382</a>).</p> <p>Erb, Li, Sun, Paynter, Wang, &amp; Schaaf, (2022). Evaluation of the Landsat-8 Albedo Product across the Circumpolar Domain.&nbsp;<em>Remote Sensing</em>,&nbsp;<em>14</em>(21), 5320.</p> <p>Healey, Yang, Erb, Bright, Domke, Frescino, Schaaf, (in review) New satellite observations expose albedo dynamics offsetting half of carbon storage benefits in US forests.</p>