Assessing the impacts of 1.5°C of global warming – The Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP) approach

Fang Zhao1, Katja Frieler2, Lila Warszawski1, Stefan Lange1, Jacob Schewe1, Christopher Reyer1, Sebastian Ostberg1, Franziska Piontek1, Richard Arthur Betts3, Eleanor J Burke4, Philippe Ciais5, Delphine Deryng6, Kristie L Ebi7, Kerry Emanuel8, Joshua Wright Elliott9, Eric D Galbraith10, Simon Newland Gosling11, Thomas Hickler12, Jochen Hinkel13, Chris Jones14, Valentina Krysanova1, Hermann Lotze-Campen1, Ioanna Mouratiadou1, Alexander Popp1, Hanqin Tian15, Derek Tittensor16, Robert Vautard5, Michelle TH van Vliet17, Tyler Eddy16, Fred Hattermann1, Veronika Huber1, Matthias Mengel18, Miodrag Stevanovic1, Thonicke Kirsten19, Hannes Mueller Schmied20, Sébastien Denvil21, Kate Halladay22, Tatsuo Suzuki23 and Heike K. Lotze24, (1)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Research Department Transformation Pathways, Potsdam, Germany, (3)University of Exeter, Global Systems Institute, Exeter, United Kingdom, (4)Met Office Hadley Centre, Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Team, Exeter, United Kingdom, (5)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, (6)University of East Anglia, Climatic Research Unit, Norwich, United Kingdom, (7)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (8)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (9)University of Chicago, Department of Computer Science, Chicago, IL, United States, (10)McGill University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, (11)University of Nottingham, School of Geography, Nottingham, United Kingdom, (12)Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, (13)Global Climate Forum, Berlin, Germany, (14)Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Science and Services, Exeter, United Kingdom, (15)Auburn University, Auburn, United States, (16)Dalhousie University, Department of Biology, Halifax, NS, Canada, (17)Utrecht University, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (18)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany, (19)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, RD1 - Earth System Analysis, Potsdam, Germany, (20)Goethe University Frankfurt, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Institute of Physical Geography, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, (21)IPSL, Paris, France, (22)Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, (23)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Research Center for Environmental Modeling and Application, Yokohama, Japan, (24)Dalhousie University, Biology Department, Halifax, NS, Canada
Scientific Team Name: Inter-sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project Coordination Team