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|Description=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. | |||
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 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). | |||
Another implication of the IMAGE 3.0 framework including several external expert models is that making the model available to potential other users is either quite complicated, due to distributed ownership, or would only provide the core part of the model. However, as we acknowledge the possible benefit of open-source software to scientific quality and innovation, we are considering to take this step in the future. | |||
As another mechanism to assure scientific quality, the IMAGE model is subjected to review procedures at irregular intervals, most recently in 2006 for the just released model version 2.4. Also with the release of IMAGE3.0, an advisory boards is assembled and asked for a review of the current model version. The Advisory Board performing the review looks at various aspects, such as scientific rigor and quality of the methods and data. As the scientific quality of the overall framework hinges critically on sufficient and adequate resources, the organizational set-up, personal capacity and expertise at PBL and the partner organizations, the merits and risks of the network strategy also form part of the Advisory Board’s review. | |||
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