Integrated Global System Model

The Integrated Global System Model (IGSM) is an Integrated Assessment Model (IAM) developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. The IGSM couples an Earth system model of intermediate complexity to a human activity model that represents the world's economy. It has been used to understand the interactions between humans and the global climate system.[1][2]

History

IGSM was introduced in 1999 in a paper by Ronald Prinn et al. in a paper in Climatic Change[3] Version 2 was released in 2005.[2]

Reception

Academic reception

The IGSM has been referenced by the United States Environmental Protection Agency[4] and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.[5][6]

The IGSM has also been referenced in academic literature on climate systems, human activity, and policy implications. Version 1 was used by the model creators for an analysis of the Kyoto Protocol in a 1999 paper for Nature.[7] Version 2.2 was used by the creators of the model in a study published as a working paper in 2008.[8] A modified version was published in Climatic Change in 2011[9] A 2012 working paper did an analysis of climate policy targets under uncertainty.[10]

Independent authors have also referenced the IGSM.[11][12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "IGSM - Integrated Global System Modeling Framework". Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
  2. 1 2 "The MIT Integrated Global System Model" (PDF). Retrieved June 28, 2014.
  3. ↑ Prinn, Ronald; Jocoby, Henry; Sokolov, Andrei; et al. (1999). "Integrated Global System Model for Climate Policy Assessment: Feedbacks and Sensitivity Studies" (PDF). Climatic Change. 41: 469–546. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Integrated Global System Model". Retrieved June 28, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Towards New Scenarios for Analysis of Emissions, Climate Change, Impacts, and Response Strategies (Technical Summary)" (PDF). Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. September 19–21, 2007. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Climate Models and Their Evaluation (Chapter 8, Working Group 1)" (PDF). Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Fourth Assessment Report). Retrieved June 28, 2014.
  7. ↑ Reilly, John; Prinn, Ronald; et al. (October 7, 1999). "Multi-gas assessment of the Kyoto Protocol". Nature. 401: 549–555. doi:10.1038/44069.
  8. ↑ Prinn, Ronald; Paltsev, Sergey; Sokolov, Andrei; Sarofilm, Marcus; Reilly, John; Jacoby, Henry. "The Influence on Climate Change of Differing Scenarios for Future Development Analyzed Using the MIT Integrated Global System Model" (PDF). Retrieved March 28, 2014.
  9. ↑ Prinn, Ronald; Paltsev, Sergey; Sokolov, Andrei; Sarofilm, Marcus; Reilly, John; Jacoby, Henry (February 2011). "Scenarios with MIT integrated global systems model: significant global warming regardless of different approaches" (PDF). Climatic Change. 104 (3-4): 515–537. doi:10.1007/s10584-009-9792-y. Retrieved March 28, 2014.
  10. ↑ Webster, Mort; Sokolov, Andrei P.; Reilly, John M.; Forest, Chris E.; Paltsev, Sergey; Schlosser, Adam; Wang, Chien; Kicklighter, David; Sarofilm, Marcus; Melillo, Jerry; Prinn, Ronald G.; Jacoby, Henry D. "Analysis of Climate Policy Targets under Uncertainty" (PDF).
  11. ↑ Claussen, M.; Mysak, L. A.; Weaver, A. J.; et al. (2002). "Earth system models of intermediate complexity: closing the gap in the spectrum of climate system models" (PDF). Climate Dynamics. 18: 579–586. doi:10.1007/s0382-001-0200-1.
  12. ↑ Costanza, Robert; Leemans, Rik; Boumans, Roulef; Gaddis, Erica. "Integrated Global Systems" (PDF).

External links

Official website

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