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| |Description===IMAGE framework introduction/Organizational setup== | | |Description=Network strategy |
| ===Network strategy===
| | The IMAGE team at PBL (and predecessors RIVM and MNP) works in close collaboration with institutes and universities in the Netherlands and other countries to develop and apply the IMAGE framework. PBL coordinates and integrates IMAGE development, and works in a network to ensure scientific excellence, and to extend expertise for IMAGE beyond the resources available at PBL. |
| As explained earlier, [[PBL]] (and its predecessors RIVM and MNP), together with the IMAGE team, deliberately follows the strategy to develop the IMAGE model in close collaboration with national and international institutes and universities, rather than primarily in-house. While the coordination and integration of module takes place at PBL, various partners, in various roles, are contributing to enhance certain parts of the model. In selecting network partners, their position and status among their peers is a key consideration. While this strategy aims to ensure that up-to-date science is reflected in IMAGE, it also brings about challenges for assuring progress and scientific quality under shared responsibilities and dependencies. Additionally, it allows to extend the personal capacity and expertise for IMAGE beyond the resources available at PBL.
| | As a result of the network strategy, several expert models have been incorporated to improve and extend the IMAGE framework. For instance, the MAGNET model has been included as the agro-economic model, GLOBIO as the biodiversity model, LPJmL as the crop, carbon, and hydrology model, and CLUMondo as the land-use dynamics model. |
| | | IMAGE Advisory board |
| ===Model implementations**kopje===
| | To ensure scientific quality, the IMAGE framework is subject to external review. The IMAGE Advisory Board reviews each new release of the IMAGE model on scientific rigor and quality of the methods and data, and advises on strategic directions for further model development. |
| One important result of the network strategy is the inclusion of several expert models, in-house or external, to improve and extend the IMAGE framework. In this process, the MAGNET model was included as the agro-economic model in IMAGE, [[GLOBIO model|GLOBIO]] as the biodiversity model, and, most recently, [[LPJmL model|LPJmL]] as the crop, carbon, and hydrology model of IMAGE, and [[CLUE-mondo model|CLUE-mondo]] as the land use dynamics model. And from very early on, [[TIMER model|TIMER]] and [[FAIR model|FAIR]] are distinct modules of IMAGE. Most of these models also have their “own life”, independently from IMAGE, as expert models on agricultural economy, biodiversity, crop, water, land use, energy and climate policy model, and then obviously maintain their own names. When applied together with the rest of IMAGE in a large scenario study, they all together form the IMAGE model framework, and all results are just referred to as IMAGE. As such a construction is susceptible to naming confusion, we distinguish the IMAGE 3.0 core model, comprising all closely coupled parts, physically located at PBL, and the wider IMAGE 3.0 framework. The IMAGE core model consists of the energy modules (the model code of IMAGE/TIMER), and the land use and earth system parts (IMAGE/Land&Climate, also including now LPJmL). The IMAGE 3.0 framework additional includes, depending on the purpose of the study, the models [[MAGNET model|MAGNET]], CLUE-mondo, FAIR, and the impact modules GLOBIO (for biodiversity), [[GLOFRIS model|GLOFRIS]] (flooding), [[GISMO model|GISMO]] (human development).
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