Access rights/Installation

The GAINS landing page provides access to the online implementations of the GAINS model at the global, regional (e.g. Europe), national and sub-national scale, as well as to supporting documentation material, such as the release notes or user guide (see also the Library Section for more details). Further information on such separate model instances can be found in the Regional domains and time coverage Section.

The use of the GAINS model is free of charge and only necessitates an up-to-date web browser (see also the Target audience Section). A one-time registration is required for technical reasons before having access to the model. Please consult the Section 1.2 of the user guide for detailed explanations of the procedure.

VIEWER rights (Basic mode)

The VIEWER status is automatically granted upon registering (subject to acceptance of the disclaimer and licensing conditions), allowing the user to view input data and calculate results for scenarios prepared by IIASA. Printing, exporting and downloading various tables and maps with input data and results are also possible in this Basic mode.

Among other things, the Basic mode allows rapid exploration of the following key features:

• Macro-economic assumptions

• Projected future energy use

• Agricultural activities

• Transport volumes and industrial production

• Assumed emission controls,

• Costs of these measures,

• Resulting air pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions,

• Ambient air quality, and

• Health and ecosystems impact indicators.

USER rights (Advanced mode)

Upon request (gains.dev@iiasa.ac.at), IIASA collaborators can obtain the user status, which grants them permission to carry out a.o. the following advanced tasks:

• Advanced data management and upload functions

• Create personalised scenarios within the GAINS framework

• Advanced editor functions, such as:

  • Creation of new input data

  • Organization of new data sets into an emission scenario.