scholarly journals Information technology for the analysis of the dynamic of the carbon balance of forests in Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
S. P. Stryamets ◽  
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H. V. Striamets ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Carbon Balance ◽  
Forest Ecosystems ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Inventory Level ◽  
Digital Maps ◽  
Official Sources

Forest management involves the use of large areas of land and a large amount of related information. Therefore, the use of geographic information technologies (GIS) is substantiated for the processing, analysis, and visualization of information in forest ecosystems. Green plants and trees deposit carbon and retain it for a long time, they are the main absorbers of carbon on land, so to determine the carbon balance the study of wood growth, accumulation of phytomass in forest ecosystems is necessary. The purpose of the work is to develop a toolkit for determining the geo-distributed phytomass of forests for the calculation of deposited carbon according to statistical data of planting stock, species composition, age class, and other silvicultural and taxonomic indicators provided by the official sources. The article provides a description of Polish forests, GIS analysis of tabular data on taxonomic indicators of forest ecosystems, diagrams, and digital maps of forests. The analysis of the forests state in some voivodships of Poland in 2009 and 2019 was conducted to assess emissions and removals of greenhouse gases by forest ecosystems. The three-level scheme of greenhouse gas inventory recommended by the IPCC technique is described. To carry out the inventory, a multilevel mathematical model is used, which includes: the highest level of inventory (level of national inventory), the middle level of inventory (level of region or district), and the inventory lowest level (level of the elementary plots). A comparative analysis of forestry and tax indicators of Polish forests for the period from 2009 to 2019 and the methods used to calculate greenhouse gas emissions and removals are presented. The amount of carbon deposited over a ten-year period by Polish forest ecosystems has been determined. The architecture of geographic information technology for spatial analysis of carbon deposition and greenhouse gas emissions in the Polish forestry sector has been improved and supplemented. Calculations of the deposited carbon were made according to statistical data of planting stock, species composition, age class, and other silvicultural and taxonomic indicators, which are taken from the official sources. The geoinformation approach to the comparative analysis of greenhouse gases for different time intervals is based on the use of the appropriate digital map layers, mathematical models of inventory, statistical information on business results, as well as the use of a number of other specific parameters describing complex greenhouse gas emission and absorption processes. Keywords: GIS; digital maps; greenhouse gases; forests of Poland.

scholarly journals Forest complex of Russia in ensuring the national commitments of the Paris climate agreement

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ю.В. Кузминых ◽  
С.Е. Грязнов
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Carbon Balance ◽  
Forest Ecosystems ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Paris Climate Agreement

Изменение климата планеты вследствие концентрации парниковых газов в атмосфере является на сегодняшний день одной из основных глобальных экологических проблем. Лесные экосистемы и связанная с ними деятельность занимают важное место в формировании баланса углерода в атмосфере. Положительное влияние лесных экосистем на формирование углеродного баланса планеты признается международными климатическими соглашениями. Парижское соглашение об изменении климата, которое вступило в силу 4 ноября 2016 г., подтверждает возможность выполнения национальных обязательств стран за счет увеличения поглощения углерода лесами. Российской Федерацией продекларированы следующие обязательства по  предотвращению глобального изменения климата – ограничить выбросы парниковых газов на уровне 70–75% от уровня 1990 г. к 2030 г. при условии максимально возможного учета поглощающей способности лесов. В условиях замедления темпов развития российской экономики обязательства, заявленные Российской Федерацией, будут выполнены при условии реализации мер по ограничению и сокращению выбросов парниковых газов, тесно увязанных с политикой и мерами по модернизации российской экономики. Специальных дополнительных мер не потребуется. В перспективе управляемые леса России будут по-прежнему обеспечивать накопление углерода, но поглощаемая ими величина углекислых газов существенно уменьшится. В целях предотвращения снижения вклада лесных экосистем страны в формирование углеродного баланса в атмосфере необходимо проведение мероприятий по сохранению и расширению покрытой лесом площади, а также по совершенствованию управления лесными ресурсами. Лесной сектор России может выступить на международном уровне в качестве поставщика экологических углеродных услуг по сокращению выбросов парниковых газов и увеличения поглощения углерода лесными экосистемами. Основой для их реализации является механизм международной кооперации Парижского климатического соглашения. The climate change due to greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere is today one of the major global environmental problems. Forest ecosystems and related activities occupy an important place in the formation of the carbon balance in the atmosphere. A positive effect of forest ecosystems on the formation of the carbon balance of the planet is recognized in international climate agreements. The Paris agreement on climate change, which entered into force on 4 November 2016, confirms the possibility of fulfilling the national commitment of the countries due to the increase of forests carbon absorbing. The Russian Federation declared the following commitments to prevent global climate change ‒ to limit greenhouse gas emissions by 70–75 percent from 1990 levels by 2030, assuming the maximum possible given the absorptive capacity of forests. In the face of a slowing Russian economy development the commitment of the Russian Federation will be implemented under condition of limiting and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which are closely linked to the policies and measures on modernization of the Russian economy. Special additional measures are not required. In the future Russian managed forests will continue to provide carbon accumulation, but absorbed amount of carbon dioxide will decrease significantly. In order to prevent reduction of the contribution of forest ecosystems of the country in the formation of the carbon balance in the atmosphere it is necessary to conduct activities for the conservation and expansion of forested area, and on improving the management of forest resources. The forest sector of Russia can act at the international level as a provider of environmental services of carbon to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase carbon sequestration in forest ecosystems. The basis for their implementation is a mechanism of international cooperation of the Paris climate agreement. 

scholarly journals Environmental assessment of greenhouse gases' emission in poplar plantation under extreme climate conditions of winter 2019/2020

Topola ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 15-19
Author(s):  
Miljan Samardžić ◽  
Zoran Galić ◽  
Saša Orlović ◽  
Milica Kovač ◽  
Irina Andreeva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Forest Ecosystems ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emission ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Gas Emission ◽  
Extreme Climate Events ◽  
Extreme Climate ◽  
Climate Events ◽  
Emission Of Greenhouse Gases

Global changes, triggered by increased anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases, are the main problem of modern ecology. Soil is the main terrestrial reservoir of carbon, in both organic and inorganic forms. Forests are the major asset in carbon cycling and the mitigation of global climate change in the terrestrial ecosystem, because forest ecosystems in a temperate climate area are the major sink of CO2 from the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide emission from the soil is the major component of greenhouse gas emission, as well as the main respiratory flux from most forest ecosystems. In circumstances of changed climate and increased frequency of extreme climate events, soil greenhouse gas emission from forest ecosystems is gaining more and more importance, having in mind that soil temperature is one of the main limitation factors of greenhouse gas emission from the soil. From the results obtained from the experiment it is evident that the unusually warm winter of 2019/20 had as a consequence higher emission of greenhouse gases from all three experimental plots. Differences in emission between plots and between days can be explained by three main factors: soil composition, temperature difference between days of sampling, and soil moisture content. With an increased frequency of extreme climate events, as a consequence of global climate changes, the occurrence of higher winter temperatures is expected to be more frequent in the future, affecting also higher emission of greenhouse gases from the soil.

Ecological specificities of the interaction between animal breeding and climate changes, caused by greenhouse gas emissions

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 62-72
Author(s):  
O. Zhukorsky ◽  
O. Nykyforuk ◽  
N. Boltyk
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Animal Breeding ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
Emissions Inventory ◽  
Theoretical Substantiation ◽  
Global Problems

Aim. Proper development of animal breeding in the conditions of current global problems and the decrease of anthropogenic burden on environment due to greenhouse gas emissions, caused by animal breeding activity, require the study of interaction processes between animal breeding and external climatic conditions. Methods. The theoretical substantiation of the problem was performed based on scientifi c literature, statistical informa- tion of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the data of the National greenhouse gas emissions inventory in Ukraine. Theoretically possible emissions of greenhouse gases into atmosphere due to animal breeding in Ukraine and specifi c farms are calculated by the international methods using the statistical infor- mation about animal breeding in Ukraine and the economic-technological information of the activity of the investigated farms. Results. The interaction between the animal breeding production and weather-and-climate conditions of environment was analyzed. Possible vectors of activity for the industry, which promote global warming and negative processes, related to it, were determined. The main factors, affecting the formation of greenhouse gases from the activity of enterprises, aimed at animal breeding production, were characterized. Literature data, statistical data and calculations were used to analyze the role of animal breeding in the green- house gas emissions in global and national framework as well as at the level of specifi c farms with the consid- eration of individual specifi cities of these farms. Conclusions. Current global problems require clear balance between constant development of sustainable animal breeding and the decrease of the carbon footprint due to the activity of animal breeding.

Anrechnung der CO2-Senken des Schweizer Waldes: Grundlagenpapier und Empfehlungen | Accounting of CO2 sinks in Swiss forests. Working paper and recommendations

2005 ◽  
Vol 156 (11) ◽  
pp. 438-441
Author(s):  
Arbeitsgruppe Wald- und ◽  
Holzwirtschaft im Klimaschutz
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Kyoto Protocol ◽  
Carbon Balance ◽  
Carbon Sink ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
Reduction Of Co2

With the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing greenhouse gases, Switzerland is committed to reducing CO2emissions by 4.2 million tonnes by 2008. The forests in Switzerland could contribute to the country's national carbon balance with maximum 1.8 million tonnes reduction of CO2. With an increased use of the forest the emissions could be reduced by up to 2 million tonnes by the substitution of other materials. With a targeted forest management policy carbon sink reduction and the substitution value of the forest could be balanced against one another. In the framework of climate policy the Federal government should create the legal and organisational conditions for this.

Comparative analysis and interpretation of grace and grace-fo data

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 101-106
Author(s):  
Konstantin Simonov ◽  
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Alexander Matsulev
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
World Ocean ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Data Archive ◽  
Space Systems ◽  
Satellite Measurements ◽  
Digital Maps ◽  
The World ◽  
Grace Mission ◽  
Anomalous State

The study is devoted to the analysis of the features of the change in the Equivalent Water Height (EWH) parameter over the geoid based on satellite measurements of space systems. The study used the GRACE and GRACE-FO satellite data archive. The assessment was carried out on Earth as a whole, including land areas and the World Ocean. Interpretation of the anomalous state of the geoenvironment is performed using digital maps of the spatial distribution of the EWH parameter based on the histogram approach and correlation analysis. Also, a comparative analysis of the studied data from the GRACE mission and data from the new GRACE-FO satellite system launched into orbit in the summer of 2018 was carried out.

scholarly journals The Level of Development of the Digital Economy in Poland and Selected European Countries: A Comparative Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslaw Moroz
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Statistical Methods ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Secondary Sources

Abstract An assessment of the degree of the development of the digital economy in Poland in comparison to chosen European countries is the main purpose of the paper. The methodology of the conducted research is based on the analysis of secondary sources and applying statistical methods. In order to make the comparison in methodically correct manner, synthetic measures of the development of the e-economy were used in the form of two indexes: NRI (Networked Readiness Index) and DESI (Digital Economy and Society Index). On the basis of available statistical data, four European countries were confronted with Poland. Results of the analysis indicate a relatively unfavorable situation of Poland.

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