GAINS-Europe on-line

This web site allows on-line access to the GAINS-Europe model. It provides interactive access to all input data of the model and to results of the recent policy scenarios that are being developed in the context of the 2008/9 revision of the NEC directive of the European Union and the Climate and Energy Package proposed by the European Commission.

Note that the software is still under development, and is gradually extended by additional features. The current version (June 2008) allows access to

• the recent set of activity data and projections for all European countries that has been developed for the revision of the NEC directive,
• computations of emissions, emission projections and control costs for the air pollutants (SO2, NOx, PM, NH3, VOC),
• emissions, control measures and emission control costs of the optimized policy scenarios that are analyzed for the NEC review,
• computation and display of concentration and deposition fields of selected air pollutants,
• computation and display of health and environmental impacts of air pollutants,
• emission inventories and projections for CO2,
• estimates for the other greenhouse gases (CH4, N2O, HFC, PFC, SF6).

For technical reasons it is currently not possible to provide access to the GAINS optimization routine.

The on-line version of the GAINS model enables display and download of all input data and scenario results. Comprehensive documentation of the model methodology is provided in numerous reports.

To enhance transparency of the policy analyses for the Clean Air For Europe (CAFE) and the revision of the emission ceilings directive, we maintain the earlier on-line version of RAINS model as it has been used for the CAFE analyses. This version provides access to the CAFE baseline scenario, but it is not further maintained and updated.

Responsible for this page: Markus Amann
Last updated: 14 Dec 2008