Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1095-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1095-2020
Model description paper
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11 Mar 2020
Model description paper |  | 11 Mar 2020

The NExus Solutions Tool (NEST) v1.0: an open platform for optimizing multi-scale energy–water–land system transformations

Adriano Vinca, Simon Parkinson, Edward Byers, Peter Burek, Zarrar Khan, Volker Krey, Fabio A. Diuana, Yaoping Wang, Ansir Ilyas, Alexandre C. Köberle, Iain Staffell, Stefan Pfenninger, Abubakr Muhammad, Andrew Rowe, Roberto Schaeffer, Narasimha D. Rao, Yoshihide Wada, Ned Djilali, and Keywan Riahi

Model code and software

NExus Solutions Tool (NEST) v1.0 A. Vinca, S. Parkinson, Z. Khan, and P. Burek https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3625776

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Short summary
This article describes a newly developed numerical model that can assess impacts of long-term policies for the energy, water and land (WEL) sectors at the scale of a river basin. We show the importance of having an integrated method when jointly considering multiple policies as opposed to conventional sectoral analysis. This model can be useful for studying river basins, such as the Indus basin, that are exposed to challenges over WEL sectors, like water scarcity or food and energy access.