https://www.iamcdocumentation.eu/history/Temporal_dimension_-_IFs?feed=atomTemporal dimension - IFs - Revision history2026-06-14T18:22:05ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.15https://www.iamcdocumentation.eu/index.php?title=Temporal_dimension_-_IFs&diff=16459&oldid=prevBarry Hughes: Temporal Dimension2024-12-28T21:57:55Z<p>Temporal Dimension</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Future-Oriented Analysis.''' The base year of IFs is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2015 </del>and the model runs recursively in annual time steps through horizons up to 2100. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>The interface has a stop and start capability to facilitate scenario analysis. The base year is changed fairly often as new data releases allow<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; a data “preprocessor” includes algorithms to clean and reconcile data series so as to facilitate data and base year updates</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Future-Oriented Analysis.''' The base year of IFs <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in version 8.35 at the time of this writing </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2020 </ins>and the model runs recursively in annual time steps through <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">alternative </ins>horizons up to 2100 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with the option of running further for selected analyses</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins>The interface <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">also </ins>has a stop and start capability to facilitate scenario analysis. The base year is changed fairly often as new data releases allow.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Historical Analysis.''' IFs also includes an extensive and growing historical data base (<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">over 4000 </del>series) starting in 1960. The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">data base </del>allows initiation of model runs in 1960 and comparison of projections with empirical values.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Historical Analysis.''' IFs also includes an extensive and growing historical data base (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nearly 7,000 </ins>series) starting in 1960<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, of which more than 10% are used to initialize model variables and the others support model development and use</ins>. The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">database </ins>allows initiation of model runs in 1960 and comparison of projections with empirical values<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ins></div></td></tr>
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