SWIM future development - Next steps

Many todos, priority might depend on your feedback and collaboration ;-)

• Revive Sci-Model Documentation
• Update pledges (NDCs) anticipating adoption at COP30.
• Complete other sectors Energy -> bottom-up emissions projection
• GUI Setup, Demos (for teaching) and Scripts (for systematic analyses).
• Update core science
  • to be more consistent with latest IPCC
  • Sea-level-rise especially is very outdated
• Subdivide large countries with provincial detail (±1000 regions total),
  especially relevant to
  • Demography and Migration
  • Energy transitions
  • Land-use change
• Split off seperate Migration model
  • including as adaption to climate, among other drivers
• Develop impacts => demography to complete the loop
• Develop future land-use, agriculture, biodiversity, methane ...
• Re-develop educational version,
  • with questions auto-adapting to student level
  • hiding complexity while retaining science consistent with research version
  • (recall early applet-version JCM was appreciated for teaching in many countries)
• Develop variants to contribute to new scenarios processes
• Illustrate how scenarios / policy-goals evolved
  • (roll-back time, show youth "might-have-been" - thus progress)
  • (Combining 25yr history of model with author's experience in UNFCCC/IPCC)
• Fuzzy-control policy responses
  • (illustrate what happens if people don't believe models!)

It's challenging to develop interactive models, to calculate fast and robustly, in response to infinite combinations of parameters chosen by remote users. Such skills are insufficiently appreciated by academia ( prioritising static papers ).

SWIM shows potential to scale further, its evolution depends on your support and collaboration.
So, what could we do with this? Suggestions welcome!
Please tell me what you think... (ben AT benmatthews.eu)

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