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Research
Chemistry and Climate
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| Name / Acronym: | EC-IMAGE |
| Full name: | Feedbacks between climate and human systems assessed with a coupled Integrated Assessment - Climate Modeling Sytem |
| Description: | Anthropogenic activities have a detectable impact on climate on global and continental scales. Understanding the processes that determine these impacts is of large scientific and
societal interest. Models that integrate the state-of-the-art knowledge are used to make projections for future
changes. In the past 2 decades, climate models were used to calculate the impacts by prescribing the human
impact. Greenhouse gas concentration or emission scenarios from integrated assessment models and land cover
changes were used for that purpose. The integrated assessment models contain very simple climate models
(global energy balance atmosphere models and upwelling-diffusion ocean), but a sophisticated representation of
human activities and related emissions. The opposite is the case for climate models. Physical processes are well
described, but the human impact is prescribed by boundary conditions (such as CO2 equivalent concentrations,
sometimes emissions, and land cover maps). Here we intend to bridge that gap by exploring explicitly the
feedbacks and sensitivities between climate and human activities and vice versa in 2 state-of-the-art modeling
systems that will be used for the next IPCC AR5 report: the Integrated Assessment Model IMAGE and the AOGCM EC-Earth. |
| Run Period: | 16 August 2010 - 01 September 2014 |
| Source of finance: | Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) |
| Coordinator: | KNMI |
| Partners: | Detlef van Vuuren, Bart Strengers (PBL), IMAU (Bart van den Hurk) |
| KNMI Team: | Wilco Hazeleger, Twan van Noije, Bart van den Hurk, Clifford Chuwah |
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Nitrogen oxide distribution simulated with the TM model
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