Report of the third session of the IMAGE Advisory Board
This report summarises the recommendations and suggestions, which resulted from the third meeting of the IMAGE-2 Advisory Board. IMAGE-2 is RIVM's global change model. The main objectives of the meeting were to discuss and review the validity of the almost completed version 2.2 of IMAGE, and to advise on required and desirable future developments with respect to the organisation, the science and the applications of the IMAGE research.
The most important recommendations and suggestions of the report are:
- IMAGE 2.2 and its derived tools are state-of-the-art instruments. IMAGE's comparative advantage is the integration of energy use, land use, climate and impacts. This advantage should be formalised by writing a Mission Statement centred on the objective of the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC)
- Collaboration with national and international institutes, participation in the international global-change research programmes and the contribution to IPGC assessments are important to further develop the model and increase its scientific acceptance
- The agricultural economy model must be more strongly developed in the direction of a land-use ecomomy model so as to better integrate all land-based resources and improve the linkages with the Energy model, TIMER and WorldScan of CPB
- Climate variability should be included in IMAGE's impact assessments
- Land-climate interactions are important in defining climate in the future and should be addressed by continuing the linkage with the climate model ECBilt of KNMI
- Improved regionalisation is desirable
Sequel to report 481508013
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- Publication title
- Report of the third session of the IMAGE Advisory Board
- Publication date
- 30 June 2000
- Publication type
- Publication
- Publication language
- English
- Product number
- 90567