Citation:

Loughlin, Dan. GLIMPSE information session #5: Review, strengths, limitations, philosophy, and question and answer. GLIMPSE Information Session #5 - Review, strengths and limitations, and questions and answers, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, August 09, 2021.

Impact/Purpose:

GLIMPSE is prototype air-climate-energy planning tool that is being developed within the U.S. EPA's Office of Research and Development. The purpose of this series of presentations is to provide an update on GLIMPSE development and applications. Attendees are expected to include Program Office and Regional colleagues, state air quality and climate planning staff, and several university researchers and educators.

Description:

GLIMPSE (the GCAM Long-term Interactive Multi-Pollutant Scenario Evaluator) is a decision support tool for considering environmental, climate, and energy goals in long-range planning. Using GLIMPSE, decisionmakers and analysts at the national, regional, and state level examine potential policies, investigate the impacts of emerging technologies, and develop cost-effective strategies for meeting air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation targets simultaneously. Additionally, GLIMPSE can be used in a classroom setting, providing students with the ability to use a state-of-the-art human-Earth systems model to investigate alternative scenarios of the future. GLIMPSE is built around the Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM), an open source, publicly available integrated assessment model. Human systems represented in GCAM include electricity production, industry, transportation, buildings, agriculture, and labor. Natural systems include water and climate. In this final presentation of the GLIMPSE information series, the presenter will provide a short review of GCAM coverage and features, discuss its strengths and limitations, and conclude with a question and answer session.

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