CIAS is a modular, flexible and multi-institutional integrated assessment system designed for outreach to national and international climate change stakeholders.
CIAS describes the global economic system, greenhouse gas emissions, the earth system and its climate, the potential impacts of climate change upon human and natural systems, and risks such as distributions of species. It is globally unique over existing integrated modelling in allowing component modules to share data and be coupled together to function as unique integrated models.
The CIAS modules currently consist:
Climate Module MAGICC6 from UEA and PIK
Downscaling Module ClimGen from UEA
Drought analysis processor from UEA
Hydrological model MACPDM from Reading University
Biodiversity from the MaxENT model of James Cook University and the Neural Network model of the Universities of Kent and Oxford
CLIMASCOPE to make regional results available to users around the globe via the internet
Project leader: Dr Rachel Warren (UEA)
Winner of Environmental Modeling & Software Best Paper AwardThe Community Integrated Assessment System
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