About AME

The Asia Modeling Exercise is a research project primarily funded by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Additional support was provided by the European Commission under the Climate Policy Outreach Project. The goal of AME was to better articulate the role of Asia in mitigating climate change. The study compares results of 23 energy-economic and integrated assessment models, focusing on results for Asian regions.

The Asia Modeling Exercise was a 3-year research project (started in September 2009), with participants from China, India, Japan, Korea, Nepal, Europe, Australia, and the US. The project was coordinated by PNNL (Lead: Kate Calvin). The study has been documented in a Special Issue of Energy Economics (Volume 34, Supplement 3). Data contained in this database is available for public use, but should be cited as:

Calvin, K. et al. (2012). The role of Asia in mitigating climate change: Results from the Asia Modeling Exercise. Energy Economics 34(S3): S251-S260. (link)

Database Tutorial

Introduction

This database, operated by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), hosts the results of the AME modeling comparison exercise. A short tutorial on the use of the web database can be found below. If you experience technical problems with this database, please contact the AME Database Administrator.

The Navigation tabs

At the upper end of the browser window six navigation tabs can be found that provide different functionality of the web database. These six tabs are described in more detail in the following section.

About tab

The About tab provides information about the database and gives instructions on how to use the database. The first three tabs, i.e. Regions, Sectors and Series, all allow to view the scenarios in the database. The difference between these three tabs for viewing is the way how scenario data can be combined.

Regions tab

The Regions tab allows selecting a single variable from a single scenario (e.g. total GDP in Market Exchange Rate for a baseline scenario from a specific model) in order to compare this selection across different regions. For variables that can be added in a meaningful way (e.g. GDP, total primary energy consumption) the graph that appears on the right hand side will be a stacked are graph while for variables that are not additive (e.g. price information) a line graph will be displayed.

Sectors tab

The Sectors tab allows selecting multiple variables from a single scenario and region. This view is most useful for displaying a set of variables from one sector, for example, all fuel types of industrial final energy consumption. Again, if the variables can be added in a meaningful way (e.g. different fuel types of one sector) a stacked area graph is shown; if this is not possible (e.g. for different fuel prices) a line graph is displayed. In case variables with different units are selected a warning is issued on the y-axis label of the graph in red. Please note that it is necessary to mark a variable name (highlighted in blue) in addition to selecting variables for the graph on the right hand side to be updated (see also under (3.) Variables below).

Series tab

The Series tab allows selecting a single variable from multiple scenarios and regions. The preview graph on the right is always a line graph and is most useful to compare trends across different scenarios (and models) in one or multiple regions.

Common Features of the Regions, Sectors and Series tabs

In all three view tabs the following selections can be made in the navigation bars on the upper left-hand side of the browser window:

(1.) Regions: In the upper left area of the screen is a field named Regions. Depending on the tab (see above) you may select one or multiple regions for which the data is shown on the screen. Generally the regions are organized in the two folders Compare and Model Name. While in the Compare folder you can find regions that are (approximately) defined across many models (World, five macro regions and seven countries commonly compared in modeling comparison exercises, see Region definitions), the Model name folder contains the native regions that you report to the database.

(2.) Scenarios: This field includes the list of scenarios from which one or more scenarios can be selected. In addition to scenarios, for a number of variables historical and base year data can be shown to compare with scenario results. Note that historical data is only available for the regions in the Compare folder (see also previous paragraph) and that currently only some emission and energy variables are covered. Further, displaying historical data is at the moment restricted to the Sectors tab.

(3.) Variables: In this field the variables can be selected for which the data is shown on the screen. Note that in the Sectors tab it is necessary to not only required to tick one or multiple variables for selection, but also to mark a variable name (highlighted in blue) for the graph on the right hand side to be updated. It is not important which variable or variable category is marked to initiate the graph update.

The Chart Preview on the upper right-hand side of the browser window shows the graph of the selected data (variable + scenarios + regions). In addition, the horizontally oriented Query Results area in the middle of the screen shows the data in tabular format.

It is possible to export the data either into Excel or two different graphical formats (PNG = portable network graphics, SVG = scalable vector graphics). In order to do so, select one of the options in the Output Options window at the bottom of the browser window. The field titled Notes shows additional information or explanatory text for the selected variables. The availability of notes is still under development and ultimate the contents will depend on input from modeling teams.

Region definitions

The consolitated results in the database are shown at regional aggregations of the World, five macro regions and seven individual countries/regions that are commonly used in scenario analysis. These regions are defined as follows:

Aggregation on the five region level

OECD90 = Includes the OECD 90 countries.
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Greece, Guam, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Vanuatu

REF = Countries from the Reforming Ecomonies of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, TFYR Macedonia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia

ASIA = The region includes most Asian countries with the exception of the Middle East, Japan and Former Soviet Union states.
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, China Hong Kong SAR, China Macao SAR, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Viet Nam

MAF = This region includes the countries of the Middle East and Africa.
Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Qatar, Reunion, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Syrian Arab Republic, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Tanzania, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

LAM = This region includes the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela

Six individual Aisan countries and two other major economies

China = People's Repulic of China
India = Republic of India
Indonesia = Republica of Indonesia
Japan = State of Japan
Korea = Republic of Korea
Nepal = Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
USA = United States of America
EU = European Union (27 member countries)

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AME Database, 2012
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