Climate change impacts and implications for New Zealand to 2100 (Report)

Description

Synthesis Report: Identifying feedback, understanding cumulative impacts and recognising limits: a national integrated assessment.

This report describes a national integrated assessment that explored the impacts and implications of climate change to 2100 to better understand feedback, cumulative impacts, and limits among economic, social, and environmental outcomes.

Date: 2017 Version: v1

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Climate change impacts and implications for New Zealand to 2100 (Report)

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Methodology

The IPCC 5 global scenario architecture and accompanying global scenarios provided the global context and associated key assumptions needed for national systems modelling and analyses. Six (of 20) global scenarios were selected for detailed analysis in a loosely coupled national human natural systems model that integrated a suite of NZ-based models. These models included Apsim, CenW, NZFARM, CliMAT-DGE, TopNet, Biome-BGC and LURNZ. A range of impacts were studied including demographics, crop, forestry and pasture productivity, hydrology, rural land use, and ecological effects.

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