Data on fossil fuel availability for Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

• Main Authors: Nico Bauer, Jérôme Hilaire, Robert J. Brecha, Jae Edmonds, Kejun Jiang, Elmar Kriegler, Hans-Holger Rogner, Fabio Sferra
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2017-02-01
• Series: Data in Brief
• Subjects: Energy economics; Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs); Fossil fuel sector; Coal; Oil; Gas; Integrated Assessment Models; Extraction cost
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235234091630703X
• ISSN: 2352-3409

The data files contain the assumptions and results for the construction of cumulative availability curves for coal, oil and gas for the five Shared Socioeconomic Pathways. The files include the maximum availability (also known as cumulative extraction cost curves) and the assumptions that are applied to construct the SSPs. The data is differentiated into twenty regions. The resulting cumulative availability curves are plotted and the aggregate data as well as cumulative availability curves are compared across SSPs. The methodology, the data sources and the assumptions are documented in a related article (N. Bauer, J. Hilaire, R.J. Brecha, J. Edmonds, K. Jiang, E. Kriegler, H.-H. Rogner, F. Sferra, 2016) [1] under DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2016.05.088.