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Table 3 Uncertainty in carbon emission calculations due to combustion factors, burn severity, and a different choice of input carbon dataset

From: Estimating the economic value of carbon losses from wildfires using publicly available data sources: Eagle Creek Fire, Oregon 2017

Uncertainty type

Lower bound

Central estimate

Upper bound

Combustion factor (±0.1)

0.65 Tg

1.02 Tg

1.7 Tg

Burn severity (step up/down)

0.66 Tg

1.02 Tg

1.2 Tg

Alternate dataset (Ohmann and Gregory 2002)

N/A

1.02 Tg

N/A

TreeMap (Riley et al. 2021)

N/A

0.83 Tg

N/A

Outer bounds (low/low, high/high)

0.46 Tg

1.02 Tg

1.9 Tg

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