
ISIpedia
Inter-Sectoral Impact Encyclopedia
ISIpedia develops the ISIpedia online encyclopedia and coordinates the research within ISIMIP: The Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project. Comprehensive information about the impacts of climate change is essential for decision makers when considering response options to projected climate-change.
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ISIpedia provides access to the assessments and syntheses of national-level climate-impact information:historical observations, present-day conditions, projections on near-term to far-term future developments.
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Model limitationsare transparently documented and comparisons between historical simulations and observations are provided for model evaluation
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ISIpedia provides regionally-resolved visualisations of projections of climate-impacts for important sector-specific and cross-sectoral indicators,such as land area affected by droughts or population affected by crop failure.

About
ISIpedia develops the ISIpedia online encyclopedia and coordinates the research within ISIMIP: The Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project. Comprehensive information about the impacts of climate change is essential for decision makers when considering response options to projected climate-change. These options range from adjusting international mitigation targets to planning regional adaptation measures. They include informing the implementation of both adaptation and mitigation measures.
The central product of this project is the ISIpedia open inter-sectoral impacts encyclopedia. This encyclopedia will act as a hub for multi-model, policy-relevant, climate-impact simulations and assessments. The ISIpedia encyclopedia is a prototype stakeholder-driven climate service to assist stakeholders to respond to evolving future climate-change scenarios.
Work structure within the ISIpedia project.
Highlights
- ISIpedia provides access to the assessments and syntheses of national-level climate-impact information: historical observations, present-day conditions, projections on near-term to far-term future developments.
- Model limitations are transparently documented and comparisons between historical simulations and observations are provided for model evaluation
- ISIpedia provides regionally-resolved visualisations of projections of climate-impacts for important sector-specific and cross-sectoral indicators, such as land area affected by droughts or population affected by crop failure.
Keywords / hashtags
Keywords: Climate-change impacts; Cross-sectoral simulations; Policy-relevant assessments; User-driven climate-impacts indicators; Visualisations of climate-impacts projections
Hashtags: #ISIpedia #climateimpacts #ISIMIP
Potential societal impacts
Information about the impacts of climate change that will be provided by ISIpedia will help for example decision makers while considering response options to projected climate change. Thereby ISIpedia can contribute to the implementation of international agreements as the Paris Agreement. ISIpedia addresses not only decision makers. Its information about climate impacts can also help a variety of stakeholders from civil society with their work on responding to climate change.
The role of JPI Climate
JPI Climate plays a central role in the implementation of ISIpedia. It is through the joint efforts of numerous European states to harmonize research activities and enable cross-border research that an endeavour like ISIpedia becomes possible. ISIMIP itself brings together over 100 modelling groups worldwide.
Project leader
Katja Frieler is Head of the Research Department 3 "Transformation Pathways" where she leads the area "Pathway-specific climate risks". Katja Frieler is IPCC lead author for Chapter 16 on "Key Risks Across Sectors and Regions" in the 6th Assessment Report of Working Group 2. She leads the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP) and the open climate impact encyclopedia ISIpedia. Katja Frieler works on changes in the occurrence of extreme events in terms of global mean temperature change. She holds a Diploma in Mathematics and a PhD in "Physics of the Atmosphere" of the University of Potsdam.
Project consortium
Centre for international climate research
Umeå University
Senckenberg Institute for Climate and Biodiversity
International Institute for Advanced System Analysis
Global Climate Forum
Goethe University Frankfurt
The Autonomous University of Barcelona
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environment
University Pablo de Olavide
Utrecht University
Climate Analytics
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
ISIpedia is a consortium of researchers from twelve institutions in seven countries Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) is in charge of the project coordination. Climate Analytics is leading the Stakeholder Engagement Team. The International Institute for Advanced System Analysis (IIASA) leads the Assessment & Editorial work. The ISIpedia sector coordinators are part of the ISIMIP work package: Senckenberg Institute for Climate and Biodiversity, Global Climate Forum, Goethe University Frankfurt, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environment, Umea University, University Pablo de Olavide, Utrecht University
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Parent programme
ERA4CS
European Research Area for Climate Services
ERA-NET Cofund for Climate Services - This ERA-NET Consortium has been designed to boost the development of efficient Climate Services in Europe, by supporting research for developing better tools, methods and standards on how to produce, transfer, communicate and use reliable climate information to cope with current and future climate variability.
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