LUCAS Builder SyncroSim Package

Landscape scale forest carbon simulations

LUCAS Builder is an open-source SyncroSim package for integrating dynamics from the Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS3) into the ST-Sim landscape simulation model.

LUCAS Builder integrates inputs and outputs from the Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS3, Kurz et al. 2009) into landscape scale simulations using the ST-Sim SyncroSim package. The package allows users to load outputs from the CBM-CFS3, calculate flow rates by carbon pool based on CBM-CFS3 parameters and user defined temperatures, run spin-up simulations to create initial carbon maps based on forest type and recent disturbance, and generate spatially explicit forecasts of forest carbon under alternative scenarios.

LUCAS Builder is a package that plugs into the SyncroSim modeling framework. It can also be run from the R programming language using the rsyncrosim R package and from the Python programming language using the pysyncrosim Python package.

Requirements

This package requires SyncroSim 3.1.9 or higher and the stsim SyncroSim package.
If you choose to run without installing the conda environment, R version 4.1.3 or higher is required.

How to Install

For installation instructions, see the Install LUCAS Builder section on the Getting Started page.

Getting Started

For more information on LUCAS Builder, including a Quickstart Tutorial, see the Getting Started page.

Templates

• LUCAS Builder - CONUS: LUCAS Builder Library containing the 29 forest types required to run forest carbon simulations for CONUS.

Links

Browse source code at https://github.com/ApexRMS/lucasbuilder/
Report a bug at https://github.com/ApexRMS/lucasbuilder/issues

Developers

Amanda Schwantes (Author, maintainer)
Leonardo Frid (Author)
Benjamin Sleeter (Author)
Schuyler Pearman-Gillman (Author)
Diego Bilski (Author)
Colin Daniel (Author)