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.
The IAMC wiki derives its name from and closely collaborates with the Integrated Assessment Modelling Consortium (IAMC, https://www.iamconsortium.org/). This is an organization of scientific research institutions that are involved in integrated assessment modeling and analysis. The IAMC has members from all over the world, who manage most of the IAM models that currently being used. The IAMC wiki provides a platform for these models' 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.
The extent of documentation of the participating models may vary. The model documentation consists of:
The table below shows all models that are currently "fully published" on the wiki (i.e. with complete and reviewed documentation). Models that are currently "in preparation" or "under review" are not yet shown. Note that the reference card menu in the left sidebar includes more models than in the table below. Although the reference cards are published, models do not always appear in the table, when the model documentation pages are not yet published.
Model Institution Participation mode AIM-Hub Kyoto-University (Kyoto-University), Japan, https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en., National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan, https://www.nies.go.jp/index-e.html. full BLUES COPPE/UFRJ (Cenergia), Brazil, http://www.cenergialab.coppe.ufrj.br/. full C3IAM Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Beijing Institute of Technology (CEEP-BIT), China, http://ceep.bit.edu.cn/english/. full COFFEE-TEA COPPE/UFRJ (Cenergia), Brazil, http://www.cenergialab.coppe.ufrj.br/. full DNE21+ Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), Japan, http://www.rite.or.jp/en/. full GCAM Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute (PNNL, JGCRI), USA, https://www.pnnl.gov/projects/jgcri. full GEM-E3 Institute of Communication And Computer Systems (ICCS), Greece, https://www.iccs.gr/en/. full GRACE Center for International Climate Research (CICERO), Norway, https://cicero.oslo.no/en. full IFs Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures, University of Denver (Pardee Center), Colorado, USA, https://pardee.du.edu/. full IMACLIM Centre international de recherche sur l'environnement et le développement (CIRED), France, http://www.centre-cired.fr., Societe de Mathematiques Appliquees et de Sciences Humaines (SMASH), France, http://www.smash.fr. full IMAGE PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), Netherlands, https://www.pbl.nl/en. full MESSAGE-GLOBIOM International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, http://data.ene.iiasa.ac.at. full POLES JRC - Joint Research Centre - European Commission (EC-JRC), Belgium, http://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/. full PROMETHEUS E3Modelling (E3M), Greece, https://e3modelling.com/modelling-tools. full REMIND-MAgPIE Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (PIK), Germany, https://www.pik-potsdam.de. full TIAM-UCL University College London (UCL), UK, https://www.ucl.ac.uk. full WITCH European Institute on Economics and the Environment (RFF-CMCC EIEE), Italy, http://www.eiee.org. full WITNESS Linux Foundation (LF), N/A, https://www.linuxfoundation.org/., Open-Source for Climate (OS-C), N/A, https://os-climate.org/transition-analysis/. full AIM-Enduse Japan Kyoto University (KU), Japan, https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/., National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan, . reference card only AIM-Hub Thailand Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University (SIIT-TU), Thailand, https://www.siit.tu.ac.th/. reference card only AIM-Hub Viet Nam Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (HCMIU), Viet Nam, https://ev.hcmiu.edu.vn/en/home/. reference card only BET Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Japan, https://criepi.denken.or.jp/en/. reference card only CCEM National Academy of Techhnologies of France (NATF), France, https://www.academie-technologies.fr/en/academie/. reference card only China TIMES Tsinghua University (Tsinghua University), China, https://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/. reference card only DART Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Germany, https://www.ifw-kiel.de/. reference card only Euro-Calliope TU Delft (TU Delft), The Netherlands, https://www.tudelft.nl/. reference card only GCAM-KSA King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC), Saudi Arabia, https://www.kapsarc.org/. reference card only GENeSYS-MOD Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), Germany, https://www.diw.de/., Europa-Universität Flensburg (EUF), Germany, https://www.uni-flensburg.de/eum., Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany, https://wip.tu-berlin.de/. reference card only IMACLIM-NLU Centre international de recherche sur l'environnement et le développement (CIRED), France, http://www.centre-cired.fr., Societe de Mathematiques Appliquees et de Sciences Humaines (SMASH), France, http://www.smash.fr. reference card only IPETS National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), USA, https://ncar.ucar.edu/. reference card only MESSAGE Korea Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South-Korea, https://www.kaist.ac.kr/en/. reference card only MIGRATION Center for the Environment and Kennedy School, Harvard University (Harvard), USA, https://environment.harvard.edu. reference card only REMod Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE (Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE), Germany, https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en.html. reference card only RICE50+ Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), Italy, https://www.cmcc.it/. reference card only SNOW GL HH Statistics Norway (SSB), Norway, https://www.ssb.no/en. reference card only TIMES-France Centre for Applied Mathematics (CMA), France, https://www.cma.mines-paristech.fr/en. reference card only VESPA Wise-Europa (Wise-Europa), Poland, https://wise-europa.eu/en/. reference card only WEGDYN Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz, Austria (Uni-Graz), Austria, https://wegcenter.uni-graz.at/en/. reference card onlyIAM 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, SSP and IPCC Report databases, host the output of several IAMs in a common format (RCP Database, SSP database, IPCC AR6 database). These databases also include key input variables to the models (please find links to key input variables on the AR6 database under 'model inputs' in the left sidebar). Second, IAM models have also produced common evaluation metrics, distilled from common simple model experiments [1] [2] [3].
The first version of the wiki benefited from the work of an earlier version developed at University College London. Major developments of this wiki-based multi-model documentation received input from the FP7 ADVANCE project (grant agreement No. 308329). Maintenance of the wiki has also been partially funded through the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreements No. 821471 (ENGAGE) and No. 821124 (NAVIGATE) and is being further updated and developed in the H2020 projects ELEVATE and PRISMA. The wiki has also been improved based on comments and suggestions of other modelling teams part of the IAMC. Integrated Assessment Model teams interested in joining this common documentation platform should send a mail to IAMCwiki@iamconsortium.org.
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