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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

FacilityPotsdam, Germany
About: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research is a facility organization based out in Potsdam, Germany. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Climate change & Global warming. The organization has 1519 authors who have published 5098 publications receiving 367023 citations.


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TL;DR: The Equal Quantile Walk (EQW) method as mentioned in this paper generates new mitigation pathways by walking along equal quantile paths of the emission distributions derived from existing multi-gas IPCC baseline and stabilization scenarios.
Abstract: So far, climate change mitigation pathways focus mostly on CO2 and a limited number of climate targets. Comprehensive studies of emission implications have been hindered by the absence of a flexible method to generate multi-gas emissions pathways, user-definable in shape and the climate target. The presented method ‘Equal Quantile Walk’ (EQW) is intended to fill this gap, building upon and complementing existing multi-gas emission scenarios. The EQW method generates new mitigation pathways by ‘walking along equal quantile paths’ of the emission distributions derived from existing multi-gas IPCC baseline and stabilization scenarios. Considered emissions include those of CO2 and all other major radiative forcing agents (greenhouse gases, ozone precursors and sulphur aerosols). Sample EQW pathways are derived for stabilization at 350 ppm to 750 ppm CO2 concentrations and compared to WRE profiles. Furthermore, the ability of the method to analyze emission implications in a probabilistic multi-gas framework is demonstrated. The probability of overshooting a 2 ∘C climate target is derived by using different sets of EQW radiative forcing peaking pathways. If the probability shall not be increased above 30%, it seems necessary to peak CO2 equivalence concentrations around 475 ppm and return to lower levels after peaking (below 400 ppm). EQW emissions pathways can be applied in studies relating to Article 2 of the UNFCCC, for the analysis of climate impacts, adaptation and emission control implications associated with certain climate targets. See http://www.simcap.org for EQW-software and data.

138 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a difference-in-differences estimator on panel data for 30 developing and 21 industrialized countries is employed over the period 1971-2005 to examine how patterns of energy use (characterized by the consumption of primary energy carriers, sectoral energy use and carbon emissions) are changing in the process of economic development.

138 citations

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TL;DR: A set of 12 papers presents a broad range of issues from methodologies to the results of particular trait studies in the field, and modelling approaches to determine the trait variations associated with climate, disturbance history and current disturbance regime.
Abstract: . Plant functional traits and types are useful concepts in relation to disturbance responses of natural and managed ecosystems. To explore their applicability in greater depth, a set of 12 papers presents a broad range of issues from methodologies to the results of particular trait studies in the field, and modelling approaches. So far, empirical studies have only allowed us to identify a few functional traits that are consistently associated with disturbance. To determine the trait variations associated with climate, disturbance history and current disturbance regime as well as the interactions between these factors, global-scale comparisons of numerous individual studies are required. Significant advances toward this ambitious goal are presented in these papers, and include: (1) the articulation of experimental and analytical methodologies for individual studies that could usefully contribute to a global comparison; (2) the identification of core traits that can be used in the further search for disturbance-related traits common to a range of environments; (3) further information on vegetation response to disturbance in terms of trait representation, and the identification of attribute syndromes; (4) the identification of issues for modelling disturbance dynamics using functional types.

138 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a new strategy for the construction of discretizations that are "well-balanced" with respect to dominant hydrostatics is developed, based on the Discrete Archimedes' buoyancy principle.

138 citations

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TL;DR: The Integrated Assessment of Climate Protection Strategies (ICLIPS) core model uses AgLU to provide estimates of carbon emissions from land-use change as one component of total greenhouse gas emissions as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The Agriculture and Land Use (AgLU) model is a top-downeconomic model with just enough structure to simulate globalland-use change and the resulting carbon emissions over one century.These simulations are done with and without a carbon policy representedby a positive carbon price. Increases in the carbon price createincentives for production of commercial biomass that affect thedistribution of other land types and, therefore, carbon emissionsfrom land-use change. Commercial biomass provides a link betweenthe agricultural and energy systems. The Integrated Assessmentof Climate Protection Strategies (ICLIPS) core model uses AgLUto provide estimates of carbon emissions from land-use changeas one component of total greenhouse gas emissions. Each majorland-use type is assigned an average carbon density used to calculatea total carbon stock; carbon emissions from land-use change arecalculated as the change in carbon stock between time periods.Significant carbon emissions from land-use change are presenteven in the reference scenario. An aggressive ICLIPS mitigationscenario results in carbon emissions from land-use change upto 800 million metric tons per year above the AgLU referencescenario.

138 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Carl Folke133360125990
Adam Drewnowski10648641107
Jürgen Kurths105103862179
Markus Reichstein10338653385
Stephen Polasky9935459148
Sandy P. Harrison9632934004
Owen B. Toon9442432237
Stephen Sitch9426252236
Yong Xu88139139268
Dieter Neher8542426225
Johan Rockström8523657842
Jonathan A. Foley8514470710
Robert J. Scholes8425337019
Christoph Müller8245727274
Robert J. Nicholls7951535729
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
2023101
2022107
2021479
2020486
2019332
2018355