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Current Recruiting Announcement

None at this time.

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Quantifying Uncertainty Estimates and

Risk for Carbon Accounting (QUERCA)

Proposals that have funded QUERCA so far:

• SilvaCarbon (USFS International Programs)

• World Bank

QUERCA Products

• Yanai, R.D., C. Wayson, D. Lee, A.B. Espejo, J.L Campbell, M.B. Green, J.M. Zukswert, S.B. Yoffe, J.E. Aukema, A.J. Lister, J.W. Kirchner , and J.G.P. Gamarra. 2020. Improving Uncertainty in Forest Carbon Accounting for REDD+ Mitigation Efforts. Environmental Research Letters, 15:24002. DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/abb96f

• FCPF Guidance Note

  • Calculating uncertainty of emission reduction using Monte Carlo in Excel: 4 year ultra simple example and R-code

Videos

• Combining Uncertainty with Monet Carlo Simulation in Excel by Lalita Adhikari and Joe Nash video

• Analytical Error Propagation of Excel by Scott Dai video

• Handling partially correlated variables using analytical and Cholesky decomposition method by Sandip Rijal video

• Allometric equation and calculating uncertainty in tree by Nathan Tyler video

• Good practice for area estimation of land cover by Dingfan Xing video

• Combining Uncertainty from Shared and Independent Sources - Monte Carlo by Joe Nash and Lalita Adhikari video video

 

• Click below to go to the QUEST website