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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-4095-2026
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-4095-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Model experiment description paper
| 
19 May 2026
Model experiment description paper |
| 19 May 2026
| 19 May 2026
Scenario set-up and the new CMIP6-based climate-related forcings provided within the third round of the Inter-Sectoral Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP3b, group I and II)
Katja Frieler
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Institute for Environmental Science and Geography, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Stefan Lange
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Jacob Schewe
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Matthias Mengel
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Simon Treu
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Institute for Environmental Science and Geography, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Christian Otto
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Jan Volkholz
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Christopher P. O. Reyer
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Stefanie Heinicke
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Colin Jones
National Centre for Atmospheric Science and School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS29JT, UK
Julia L. Blanchard
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Cheryl S. Harrison
Department of Ocean and Coastal Science and Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Colleen M. Petrik
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, CA, USA
Tyler D. Eddy
Centre for Fisheries Ecosystems Research, School of Fisheries, Fisheries & Marine Institute, Memorial University, St. John's, NL, Canada
Kelly Ortega-Cisneros
Marine and Antarctic Research for Innovation and Sustainability, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7701, South Africa
Camilla Novaglio
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Ryan Heneghan
School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Derek P. Tittensor
Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4R2, Canada
Olivier Maury
IRD, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, INRAE, MARBEC, Sète, France
Matthias Büchner
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Thomas Vogt
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Dánnell Quesada-Chacón
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Kerry Emanuel
Lorenz Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Chia-Ying Lee
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, USA
Suzana J. Camargo
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, USA
Columbia Climate School, Columbia University, New York, NY 10025, USA
Linn Hamester
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Jonas Jägermeyr
Columbia Climate School, Columbia University, New York, NY 10025, USA
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY 10025, USA
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Sam Rabin
CGD, National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder, CO 80302, USA
formerly at: Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research/Atmospheric Environmental Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
formerly at: Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Jochen Klar
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Iliusi D. Vega del Valle
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Lisa Novak
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Inga J. Sauer
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Gitta Lasslop
Senckenberg Leibniz Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Sarah Chadburn
Department of Mathematics, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Eleanor Burke
Met Office Hadley Centre, Fitzroy Road, Exeter, UK
Angela Gallego-Sala
Geography Department, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Noah Smith
College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QF, UK
Jinfeng Chang
College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Stijn Hantson
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
Chantelle Burton
Met Office Hadley Centre, Fitzroy Road, Exeter, UK
Anne Gädeke
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Simon N. Gosling
School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Hannes Müller Schmied
Senckenberg Leibniz Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Fred Hattermann
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Thomas Hickler
Senckenberg Leibniz Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Rafael Marcé
Blanes Centre for Advanced Studies (CEAB-CSIC), Blanes, Spain
Don Pierson
Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18 D, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
Wim Thiery
Department of Water and Climate, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Daniel Mercado-Bettín
Blanes Centre for Advanced Studies (CEAB-CSIC), Blanes, Spain
Robert Ladwig
Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, C.F. Møllers Allé 3, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Ana Isabel Ayala
Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18 D, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
Matthew Forrest
Senckenberg Leibniz Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Michel Bechtold
KU Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Leuven, Belgium
Robert Reinecke
Institute of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Inge de Graaf
Earth Systems and Global Change Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Jed O. Kaplan
Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Alexander Koch
Department of Earth Sciences and Institute for Climate and Carbon Neutrality, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Matthieu Lengaigne
IRD, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, INRAE, MARBEC, Sète, France
Rohini Kumar
Department of Computational Hydrosystems, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig 04318, Germany
Maryna Strokal
Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Data sets
Data for Figure 3, 4 and 5 of ISIMIP3b, group I + II protocol paper D. Quesada-Chacón https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17990574
Model code and software
ISIMIP3BASD (2.5.2) S. Lange https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6344911
ESMValCore (v2.0.0) B. Andela et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3952695
ESMValTool (v2.0.0) B. Andela et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3970975
Short summary
This paper describes the experiments and data sets necessary to run historic and future impact projections, and the underlying assumptions of future climate change as defined by the 3rd round of the ISIMIP Project (Inter-sectoral Impactmodel Intercomparison Project, isimip.org). ISIMIP provides a framework for cross-sectorally consistent climate impact simulations to contribute to a comprehensive and consistent picture of the world under different climate-change scenarios.
This paper describes the experiments and data sets necessary to run historic and future impact...
