GCIMS: Global Change Intersectoral Modeling System
Our goal is to improve understanding of the complex interactions among energy, water, land, climate,
socioeconomics,
and other human and natural systems at regional and global scales over the short and long term. We are developing and applying an internally consistent, open-source, computationally efficient modeling framework that captures the evolution of the integrated human–Earth system. The team is working to resolve the effects of compounding influences on energy, water, land, climate, and socioeconomic systems over the next 10–100 years; the responses of these systems to those influences; and unresolved feedbacks that fundamentally alter the frequency or intensity of influences.
| Keywords | climate, compound influences, energy, feedbacks, human-natural interactions, integrated modeling, land, multisector dynamics, socioeconomics, water |
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Principal Investigator (PI)
Marshall Wise
Lead Institution
Other Collaborators
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tufts University
University of California Davis
University of Houston
University of Maryland
Some components included in an integrated human-natural systems model to capture feedbacks among human-caused drivers and natural systems. (Image credit: GCIMS Project Team)