IAMC wiki

The Common Integrated Assessment Model (CIAM) 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 Models - attributes allow for direct comparisons.

Participating models

Model	Institution
AIM-Enduse India	Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), India, https://www.iima.ac.in/.
AIM-Enduse Japan	Kyoto University (KU), Japan, https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/. National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan, .
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.
AIM-Hub Indonesia	Center for Research on Energy Policy Institut Teknologi Bandung (CREP ITB), Indonesia, https://www.crep.itb.ac.id/.
AIM-Hub Korea	(), , .
AIM-Hub Thailand	Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University (SIIT-TU), Thailand, https://www.siit.tu.ac.th/.
AIM-Hub Viet Nam	Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (HCMIU), Viet Nam, https://ev.hcmiu.edu.vn/en/home/.
BET	Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Japan, https://criepi.denken.or.jp/en/.
BLUES	COPPE/UFRJ (Cenergia), Brazil, http://www.cenergialab.coppe.ufrj.br/.
C3IAM	Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Beijing Institute of Technology (CEEP-BIT), China, http://ceep.bit.edu.cn/english/.
COFFEE-TEA	COPPE/UFRJ (Cenergia), Brazil, http://www.cenergialab.coppe.ufrj.br/.
China TIMES	Tsinghua University (Tsinghua University), China, https://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/.
DART	Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Germany, https://www.ifw-kiel.de/.
DNE21+	Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), Japan, http://www.rite.or.jp/en/.
E3ME-FTT	Cambridge Econometrics (CE), United Kingdom, https://www.camecon.com/. Global 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/.
ENV-Linkages	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), France, https://www.oecd.org/.
ENVISAGE	The World Bank (World Bank), USA, https://www.worldbank.org/en/home.
EPPA	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, https://globalchange.mit.edu/.
Euro-Calliope	TU Delft (TU Delft), The Netherlands, https://www.tudelft.nl/.
GCAM	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute (PNNL, JGCRI), USA, https://www.pnnl.gov/projects/jgcri.
GCAM-KAIST	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South-Korea, https://www.kaist.ac.kr/en/.
GCAM-KSA	King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC), Saudi Arabia, https://www.kapsarc.org/.
GEM-E3	Institute of Communication And Computer Systems (ICCS), Greece, https://www.iccs.gr/en/.
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/.
GMM	Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland, https://www.psi.ch/en.
GRACE	Center for International Climate Research (CICERO), Norway, https://cicero.oslo.no/en.
ICES	Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), Italy, https://www.cmcc.it/.
IFs	Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures, University of Denver (Pardee Center), Colorado, USA, https://pardee.du.edu/.
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.
IMACLIM-India	Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), India, www.iima.ac.in. Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIML), India, www.iiml.ac.in.
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.
IMAGE	PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), Netherlands, https://www.pbl.nl/en.
IPAC-AIM technology	Energy Research Institute (ERI), China, http://en.cctp.org.cn/m5/product/35982.html.
IPAC-Global	Energy Research Institute (ERI), China, http://en.cctp.org.cn/m5/product/35982.html.
IPETS	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), USA, https://ncar.ucar.edu/.
MARKAL-India	The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India, www.teriin.org.
MEDEAS	Group of Energy, Economy and Systems Dynamics, University of Valladolid (GEEDS-UVa), Spain, https://geeds.es/en/.
MERGE-ETL	Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland, https://www.psi.ch/en.
MESSAGE Korea	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South-Korea, https://www.kaist.ac.kr/en/.
MESSAGE-GLOBIOM	International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, http://data.ene.iiasa.ac.at.
MIGRATION	Center for the Environment and Kennedy School, Harvard University (Harvard), USA, https://environment.harvard.edu.
MUSE	Imperial College London (Imperial College London), UK, https://www.imperial.ac.uk/.
McKinsey	McKinsey & Company (McKinsey), USA, https://www.mckinsey.com.
POLES	JRC - Joint Research Centre - European Commission (EC-JRC), Belgium, http://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/.
PRIMES	E3Modelling (E3M), Greece, https://e3modelling.com/.
PROMETHEUS	E3Modelling (E3M), Greece, https://e3modelling.com/modelling-tools.
REMIND-MAgPIE	Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (PIK), Germany, https://www.pik-potsdam.de.
REMod	Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE (Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE), Germany, https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en.html.
RICE50+	Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), Italy, https://www.cmcc.it/.
SNOW GL HH	Statistics Norway (SSB), Norway, https://www.ssb.no/en.
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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 contact (CIAM-info@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 (Kriegler2015). {{#scite: |bibtex= @article{Kriegler2015, title = "Diagnostic indicators for integrated assessment models of climate policy ", journal = "Technological Forecasting and Social Change ", volume = "90, Part A", number = "", pages = "45 - 61", year = "2015", note = "", issn = "0040-1625", doi = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2013.09.020", url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162513002576", author = "Elmar Kriegler and Nils Petermann and Volker Krey and Valeria Jana Schwanitz and Gunnar Luderer and Shuichi Ashina and Valentina Bosetti and Jiyong Eom and Alban Kitous and Aurélie Méjean and Leonidas Paroussos and Fuminori Sano and Hal Turton and Charlie Wilson and Detlef P. Van Vuuren", keywords = "Climate policy", keywords = "Integrated assessment models", keywords = "Energy system models", keywords = "Model diagnostics", keywords = "Climate change economics " } }}