Energy modellers should explore extremes more systematically in scenarios

David McCollum; Ajay Gambhir; Joeri Rogelj; Charlie Wilson

doi:10.1038/s41560-020-0555-3

Energy modellers should explore extremes more systematically in scenarios

David McCollum, Ajay Gambhir, Joeri Rogelj, Charlie Wilson

Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

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Abstract

Scenarios are the primary tool for examining how current decisions shape the future, but the future is affected as much by out-of-ordinary extremes as by generally expected trends. Energy modellers can study extremes both by incorporating them directly within models and by using complementary off-model analyses.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	104-107
Number of pages	4
Journal	Nature Energy
Volume	5
Issue number	2
Early online date	17 Feb 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-020-0555-3
Publication status	Published - Feb 2020

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