MODEL
MAGICC – Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Induced Climate Change
- Geographical scope:Global, Regional, Country
- Initial Release:1980s
- Institution(s):The National Center for Atmospheric Research, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Climatic Research Unit, The University of Melbourne, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Users:Scientists, Policy analysts
- Link:http://www.magicc.org/
MAGICC stands for ‘Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Induced Climate Change’. It is a prime reduced-complexity model, often used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for key scientific publications and by a number of Integrated Assessment Models.
MAGICC has a hemispherically averaged upwelling-diffusion ocean coupled to an atmosphere layer and a globally averaged carbon cycle model. As with most other simple models, MAGICC evolved from a simple global average energy-balance equation.
