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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-8047-2025
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An overview of FRIDA v2.1: a feedback-based, fully coupled, global integrated assessment model of climate and humans
William Schoenberg
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
System Dynamics Group, University of Bergen, P.O. Box 7802, 5020 Bergen, Norway
isee systems inc., 24 Hanover St. Suite 8A, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03766, USA
Benjamin Blanz
Research Unit Sustainability and Climate Risks, University of Hamburg, Grindelberg 5, 20144 Hamburg, Germany
Jefferson K. Rajah
System Dynamics Group, University of Bergen, P.O. Box 7802, 5020 Bergen, Norway
Beniamino Callegari
School of Economics, Innovation and Technology, Kristiania University of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway
Christopher Wells
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
Jannes Breier
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg A31, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Martin B. Grimeland
School of Economics, Innovation and Technology, Kristiania University of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway
Andreas Nicolaidis Lindqvist
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Albanovägen 28, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Ideon Beta5, Scheelevägen 17, 22370, Lund, Sweden
Lennart Ramme
Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstraße 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Chris Smith
Department of Water and Climate, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Energy, Climate and Environment Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstraße 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Sarah Mashhadi
Department of Ocean and Ice, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, 0313 Blindern, Oslo
Adakudlu Muralidhar
Department of Ocean and Ice, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, 0313 Blindern, Oslo
Cecilie Mauritzen
Department of Ocean and Ice, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, 0313 Blindern, Oslo
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- ISEHSD: a feedback-based, integrated social-ecohydrological system dynamic model for studying river basin-level transformation L. Yu et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.107103
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- FRIDA-Clim v1.0.1: a simple climate model with process-based carbon cycle used in the integrated assessment model FRIDAv2.1 C. Wells et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-1429-2026
- Overshoot and (ir)reversibility to 2300 in two CO2-emissions driven Earth System models C. Smith et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-17-893-2026
- This is FRIDA (v2.1): an introduction to the FRIDA GMD collection C. Mauritzen https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-4439-2026
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Short summary
The current crop of models assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to produce their assessment reports lack endogenous process-based representations of climate-driven changes to human activities, limiting understanding of the feedback between climate and humans. FRIDA (Feedback-based knowledge Repository for IntegrateD Assessments) v2.1 integrates these systems and generate results that suggest standard scenarios the shared socioeconomic pathways baseline scenarios may overestimate economic growth, highlighting the importance of feedbacks for realistic projections and informed policymaking.
The current crop of models assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to produce...