Scenario Services & Scientific Software

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The IAMC data format

The Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium (IAMC) developed a standardised tabular timeseries format to exchange scenario data related to energy systems modelling, land-use change, demand sectors, and economic indicators in the context of climate change mitigation pathways and the the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Scenario databases hosted by IIASA

The Energy, Climate and Environment program (ECE) at IIASA is hosting many databases for the community to facilitate scenario analysis, model comparison and dissemination.

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Standardized naming conventions and guidelines

Having agreed standards and guidelines on naming conventions is crucial for consistency and reusability in scenario analysis.

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Open-source software packages

The Scenario Services and Scientific Software team in the Energy, Climate, and Environment program (ECE) at IIASA is developing several open-source Python packages for analysis, processing and management of scenario data in the IAMC format.

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Table of Contents

• The IAMC timeseries data format
  • Background
  • An illustrative example
  • Naming conventions and standards
  • Project “templates”
  • Related software packages
• Scenario databases hosted by IIASA
  • Access and permission management
  • Model registration
  • Scenario version management
• Standardized naming conventions
  • Variables in the IAMC format
  • Common and native regions
  • A common list of country names
  • NUTS classification
• Open-source software packages
  • Scenario analysis: pyam
  • Scenario processing: nomenclature
  • Data warehouse: ixmp4
  • NUTS utility: pysquirrel

License & Source

The source code of this Sphinx project is available at https://github.com/iiasa/ece-docs under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 License. The project is maintained by the Scenario Services & Scientific Software team in the Energy, Climate, and Environment program (ECE) at IIASA.

Visit https://software.ece.iiasa.ac.at for more information.