1Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, P.O. Box 60 12 03, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
2Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB), Member of the Leibniz Association, Max-Eyth-Allee 100, 14469 Potsdam, Germany
3Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Departamento de Economia Rural – DER, Av. Purdue s/no, Campus Universitário, CEP 36570-900 Viçosa, Brazil
4Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Economia – PIMES, Av. dos Economistas s/no, Centro de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas,
Cidade Universitária, CEP 50670-901 Recife, Brazil
5Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Agricultural Economics, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
1Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, P.O. Box 60 12 03, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
2Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB), Member of the Leibniz Association, Max-Eyth-Allee 100, 14469 Potsdam, Germany
3Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Departamento de Economia Rural – DER, Av. Purdue s/no, Campus Universitário, CEP 36570-900 Viçosa, Brazil
4Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Economia – PIMES, Av. dos Economistas s/no, Centro de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas,
Cidade Universitária, CEP 50670-901 Recife, Brazil
5Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Agricultural Economics, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
Correspondence: Jan Philipp Dietrich (dietrich@pik-potsdam.de) and Alexander Popp (popp@pik-potsdam.de)
Received: 20 Nov 2018 – Discussion started: 07 Dec 2018 – Revised: 21 Feb 2019 – Accepted: 05 Mar 2019 – Published: 03 Apr 2019
Abstract. The open-source modeling framework MAgPIE (Model of Agricultural Production and its Impact on the Environment) combines economic and biophysical approaches to simulate spatially explicit global scenarios of land use within the 21st century and the respective interactions with the environment. Besides various other projects, it was used to simulate marker scenarios of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) and contributed substantially to multiple IPCC assessments. However, with growing scope and detail, the non-linear model has become increasingly complex, computationally intensive and non-transparent, requiring structured approaches to improve the development and evaluation of the model.
Here, we provide an overview on version 4 of MAgPIE and how it addresses these issues of increasing complexity using new technical features: modular structure with exchangeable module implementations, flexible spatial resolution, in-code documentation, automatized code checking, model/output evaluation and open accessibility. Application examples provide insights into model evaluation, modular flexibility and region-specific analysis approaches. While this paper is focused on the general framework as such, the publication is accompanied by a detailed model documentation describing contents and equations, and by model evaluation documents giving insights into model performance for a broad range of variables.
With the open-source release of the MAgPIE 4 framework, we hope to contribute to more transparent, reproducible and collaborative research in the field. Due to its modularity and spatial flexibility, it should provide a basis for a broad range of land-related research with economic or biophysical, global or regional focus.
We provides an overview on version 4 of the MAgPIE open-source framework for modeling global land systems. Among others, MAgPIE has been used to simulate marker scenarios of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) and contributed substantially to multiple IPCC assessments. Its recent version marks the first open-source release of the framework and introduces several new features. Via its modularity and spatial flexibility it can serve as a tool for a broad range of land-related research topics.
We provides an overview on version 4 of the MAgPIE open-source framework for modeling global...