Executing scenario processing locally

A project workflow can be run on a scenario locally, before submission to an IIASA database instance. This can be useful to test region-aggregation and validation.

To run the project workflow locally, do the following:

  1. Install Python and run pip install nomenclature-iamc to install the package

  2. Git-clone the project repository (usually `https://github.com/iiasa/<project>-workflow`_)

Then, run the workflow on a scenario data file using the terminal (from the folder where the project repository was cloned to).

nomenclature run-workflow <path-to-scenario-file>.xlsx

The output log in the terminal will show any validation errors. If the output is empty, the validation was successful.

Warning

Make sure to pull the latest project repository and update the nomenclature package when you repeat this step later to make sure that the IIASA infrastructure and your local check are in sync.

Read the User Guide of the nomenclature package for more information!