Forest status stratified on various classifiers (e.g., NUTs regions, forest types) and age classes in the initial year of the calibration period ~2010-2020. Data is built based on latest two national forest inventories and other information sources for 25 member states of the EU (except Cyprus and Malta).
Pilli, Roberto; Blujdea, Viorel; Rougieux, Paul (2026): Inventory data for the EU-CBM-HAT calibration. European Commission, Joint Research Centre [Dataset] doi: 10.2905/JRC.2WY4Y3R PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/f022665a-d504-48a9-ba19-97e91242d569
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Forest resources play a strategic role within EU policies on climate, energy, environment and bioeconomy. For this reason, since 2012, the JRC has been developing in-house modelling capacities to assess the recent and future development of European forests’ biomass and carbon stocks using the Carbon Budget Model (CBM-CFS3). A new modelling framework, EU-CBM-HAT, has recently been developed to facilitate configuration of future management scenarios (JRC130609). In this document, we describe the calibration of the model integrating new information based both on a recent harmonization effort of ground data collected at national level, and on new data that is provided by Earth Observation systems.
This report describes the input data, harmonization efforts and methodological assumptions applied for calibrating, at country level, the EU-CBM-HAT, and provides a synthesis and a systematic comparison of the main output obtained for the calibration period 2010 - 2020.
