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GLIMPSE: GCAM Long-term Interactive Multi-Pollutant Scenario Evaluator
Citation:
Loughlin, Dan AND Chris Nolte. GLIMPSE: GCAM Long-term Interactive Multi-Pollutant Scenario Evaluator. Board of Scientific Counselors Meeting: ACE Program Meet the Scientist - Energy Systems Modeling, Research Triangle Park, NC, Webinar, October 14, 2021.
Impact/Purpose:
The ORD Board of Scientific Counselors is conducting a review of the EPA's Air-Climate-Energy Program. As part of that review, the BOSC is meeting with scientists to discuss specific projects. This presentation is one of three on the topic of Energy Systems Modeling.
Description:
The Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM) is an open source human-earth systems model originally developed to evaluate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the efficacy of national and international mitigation strategies. Since 2000, improvements to GCAM include greater technological detail, air pollutant emissions, state-level resolution, and representations of air, climate, and energy policies. With these changes, GCAM can be used to evaluate the energy and emission impacts of measures such as energy efficiency, renewable energy, and end-use electrification. EPA has integrated GCAM into the GLIMPSE (GCAM Long-term Interactive Multi-Pollutant Scenario Evaluator) decision support tool to facilitate wider distribution and use of the model. For example, GLIMPSE supports activities such as representing policies, constructing and executing scenarios, visualizing and analyzing results.