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Large Ensemble Analytic Framework for Consequence-Driven Discovery of Climate Change Scenarios

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EARTHS FUTURE
卷 6, 期 3, 页码 488-504

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AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2017EF000701

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  1. National Science Foundation through the Network for Sustainable Climate Risk Management (SCRiM) [GEO-1240507]
  2. Directorate For Geosciences [1240507] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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An analytic scenario generation framework is developed based on the idea that the same climate outcome can result from very different socioeconomic and policy drivers. The framework builds on the Scenario Matrix Framework's abstraction of challenges to mitigation and challenges to adaptation to facilitate the flexible discovery of diverse and consequential scenarios. We combine visual and statistical techniques for interrogating a large factorial data set of 33,750 scenarios generated using the Global Change Assessment Model. We demonstrate how the analytic framework can aid in identifying which scenario assumptions are most tied to user-specified measures for policy relevant outcomes of interest, specifically for our example high or low mitigation costs. We show that the current approach for selecting reference scenarios can miss policy relevant scenario narratives that often emerge as hybrids of optimistic and pessimistic scenario assumptions. We also show that the same scenario assumption can be associated with both high and low mitigation costs depending on the climate outcome of interest and the mitigation policy context. In the illustrative example, we show how agricultural productivity, population growth, and economic growth are most predictive of the level of mitigation costs. Formulating policy relevant scenarios of deeply and broadly uncertain futures benefits from large ensemble-based exploration of quantitative measures of consequences. To this end, we have contributed a large database of climate change futures that can support bottom-up scenario generation techniques that capture a broader array of consequences than those that emerge from limited sampling of a few reference scenarios.

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