Mission
The consortium exists to advance the scientific basis of integrated assessment modeling and to make its results useful, transparent and reproducible.
Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) Draw from and Serve Other Climate Science Research. IAMs include representations of climate, using models and data generated by the climate modeling and research community, and Earth systems, using models and data generated by the impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability (IAV) modeling and research community. In turn, IAMs provide to the climate modeling community emissions scenarios of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and short-lived species (SLS) and land-use projections. IAMs provide to the IAV modeling community projections of socioeco- nomic states, general development pathways, and the multiple stressors of climate change.
Source: A. Janetos. 2009. Science Challenges and Future Directions: Climate Change Integrated Assessment Research.
