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The common Integrated Assessment Model (IAM) documentation

Integrated assessment modeling

Integrated assessment models (IAM) aim to provide policy-relevant insights into global environmental change and sustainable development issues by providing a quantitative description of key processes in the human and earth systems and their interactions. The modelling is integrated, i.e. it uses information from many scientific disciplines and describes both the human and earth system. The term assessment refers to focus on generating useful information for decision-making, even in case of large uncertainties. IAMs, for instance, have been successfully applied in support of climate policy (insights in future greenhouse gas emissions and options for mitigation), in several environmental assessments (e.g. the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment), but IAMs have also published a large amount of scientific papers.

Documentation

For the purpose of IAMs, a transparent model documentation is essential. IAM teams have documented their models individually, often using web-supported tools. As IAMs, however, are often used together it is also important to have information on the similarities and differences across IAM models. This database provides an overview of the IAM models using a transparent wiki-based approach that has been used consistently across a range of models. This allows for direct comparison of these models. In addition to the harmonized model documentation, also Model comparison allow for direct comparisons.

Participating models

The extent of documentation of the participating models may vary. The model documentation consists of:

  • a set of documentation pages ordered in a hierarchical tree and a reference card which summarizes the main features (participation mode = full)
  • a reference card only (participation mode = reference card only)


Models in preparation, submitted or in review

ModelInstitutionProcess stageParticipation mode
AIM-Enduse IndiaIndian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), India, https://www.iima.ac.in/.in preparationfull
AIM-Hub IndonesiaCenter for Research on Energy Policy Institut Teknologi Bandung (CREP ITB), Indonesia, https://www.crep.itb.ac.id/.in preparationreference card only
COFFEE-TEACOPPE/UFRJ (Cenergia), Brazil, http://www.cenergialab.coppe.ufrj.br/.under reviewfull
E3ME-FTTGlobal System Institute, University of Exeter (UNEXE), United Kingdom, https://www.exeter.ac.uk/gsi/.
School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystems Sciences, The Open University (OU), United Kingdom, http://www.open.ac.uk/science/environment-earth-ecosystems/.
Cambridge Econometrics (CE), United Kingdom, https://www.camecon.com/.
submittedfull
ENV-LinkagesOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), France, https://www.oecd.org/.in preparationfull
ENVISAGEThe World Bank (World Bank), USA, https://www.worldbank.org/en/home.in preparationreference card only
EPPAMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, https://globalchange.mit.edu/.in preparationfull
GCAMPacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute (PNNL, JGCRI), USA, https://www.pnnl.gov/projects/jgcri.under reviewfull
GCAM-IndiaCounsil on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), India, https://www.ceew.in/.in preparationreference card only
GCAM-KAISTKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South-Korea, https://www.kaist.ac.kr/en/.in preparationreference card only
GMMPaul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland, https://www.psi.ch/en.in preparationfull
GRACECenter for International Climate Research (CICERO), Norway, https://cicero.oslo.no/en.under reviewfull
IAMCNational Center for Climate Change Strategy Research and International Cooperation (NCSC), China, http://www.ncsc.org.cn/.in preparationreference card only
ICESEuro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), Italy, https://www.cmcc.it/.in preparationfull
IFsFrederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures, University of Denver (Pardee Center), Colorado, USA, https://pardee.du.edu/.under reviewfull
IMACLIM-IndiaIndian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIML), India, www.iiml.ac.in.
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), India, www.iima.ac.in.
in preparationreference card only
IPAC-AIM technologyEnergy Research Institute (ERI), China, http://en.cctp.org.cn/m5/product/35982.html.in preparationfull
IPAC-GlobalEnergy Research Institute (ERI), China, http://en.cctp.org.cn/m5/product/35982.html.in preparationfull
MARKAL-IndiaThe Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India, www.teriin.org.in preparationfull
MEDEASGroup of Energy, Economy and Systems Dynamics, University of Valladolid (GEEDS-UVa), Spain, https://geeds.es/en/.in preparationreference card only
MERGE-ETLPaul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland, https://www.psi.ch/en.in preparationfull
MUSEImperial College London (Imperial College London), UK, https://www.imperial.ac.uk/.in preparationfull
McKinseyMcKinsey & Company (McKinsey), USA, https://www.mckinsey.com.in preparationreference card only
PRIMESE3Modelling (E3M), Greece, https://e3modelling.com/.in preparationreference card only
PROMETHEUSE3Modelling (E3M), Greece, https://e3modelling.com/modelling-tools.under reviewfull
TIAM-ECNThe Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), The Netherlands, https://www.tno.nl/en/.in preparationfull
WITNESSOpen-Source for Climate (OS-C), N/A, https://os-climate.org/transition-analysis/.
Linux Foundation (LF), N/A, https://www.linuxfoundation.org/.
in preparationfull


Acknowledgement

The development of this wiki-based multi-model documentation received input from the FP7 ADVANCE project. The current version benefitted from the work of an earlier version developed at University College London. The wiki also benefitted from comments and suggestions of other modelling teams part of the Integrated Assessment Modelling Consortium. Integrated Assessment Model teams interested in joining this common documentation platform should send a mail to IAMC@pbl.nl

Other forms of common model evaluation

IAM models also collaborate in other ways in order to enhance the transparency of IAM model output. First of all, various databases, such as the RCP and SSP databases, host the output of several IAMs in a common format (RCP Database (version 2.0)). Second, IAM models have also produced common evaluation metrics, distilled from common simple model experiments (1).

References

  1. ^  Elmar Kriegler, Nils Petermann, Volker Krey, Valeria Jana Schwanitz, Gunnar Luderer, Shuichi Ashina, Valentina Bosetti, Jiyong Eom, Alban Kitous, Aurélie Méjean, Leonidas Paroussos, Fuminori Sano, Hal Turton, Charlie Wilson, Detlef Van P Vuuren (2015). Diagnostic indicators for integrated assessment models of climate policy. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 90, Part A (), 45 - 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2013.09.020