Changelog
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gaia 2.0.1
gaia
is a powerful and user-friendly tool designed to estimate crop yield responses to climate impacts, enabling robust projections and streamlined workflows. Explore its full capabilities in the User Guide.
Key Features of gaia
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General Features:
- Empirical Econometric Modeling: Estimate annual crop yield responses to climate impacts using an empirically grounded approach.
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Streamlined Workflow: Simplify your analysis with a single wrapper function,
yield_impact
, for running models efficiently. - Integrated Climate Data Processing: Process widely-used ISIMIP-style climate NetCDF files without the need for external tools.
- Data-Driven Insights: Leverage historical weather, CO2, and crop yield data for robust model fitting.
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Future Projections: Project annual yield shocks for 17 crops using CMIP/ISIMIP bias-adjusted precipitation and temperature datasets.
gaia
supports both daily and monthly climate data formats. - Flexible Crop Coverage: Estimate yield shocks for 17 major crops, with the option to add more crops by providing appropriate input data.
- Model Supports: Designed to support Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM) as well as other non-GCAM modeling frameworks.
GCAM-Specific Features:
- Ready-to-Use Outputs: Generate XML files for agricultural productivity changes at region-basin intersections, compatible with GCAM.
- Version Compatibility: Supports GCAM v6.x and v7.x.
- Flexible Time Steps: Offer options for both 5-year and annual time steps for GCAM.
- Scenario Flexibility: Choose from various Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) in combination with climate scenarios (e.g., RCPs).