reference table of SSP and associated scenarios

[0UmfHxcvx5J7JoaOhFSs5mncnisTJJ6q]

I'm currently moving EDGE-Industry into mrremind, and there I need to match external "scenarios" (like low/medium/high estimates on steel stocks or assumptions on stock lifetimes) to the various SSP/SDP/not-Ariadne-but-something-else scenarios. Since this is tedious and error-prone work, I thought about having a table like

scenario	steel stock estimate	stock lifetime assumption	…
SSP1	low	fast convergence	…
SSP2	medium	normal convergence	…
…	…	…	…

and to reference that in my code. This way, there will be only one place for me to touch when scenarios get added/renamed.

Do EDGE-Buildings and EDGE-Transport have similar issues and should we coordinate on this?
@Loisel @MariannaR @RKrekeler

[robinhasse]

For EDGE-B, we are working towards a very similar solution. I want want to get to one config file like in REMIND or your example above where all assumptions that distinguish scenarios from another are defined. But our plan is to make EDGE-B a separate library potentially accompanied by mredgebuildings for input data preparation. This seems like a diverging approach. Wouldn't it make sense to harmonise this (either separate libraries or integration into mrremind)? At first sight, a shared config table across sectors does not seem practical to me but I'm not sure if this is what you thought of.

[0UmfHxcvx5J7JoaOhFSs5mncnisTJJ6q]

Wouldn't it make sense to harmonise this (either separate libraries or integration into mrremind)?

Depends on the scope I guess. EDGE-Transport is two packages by now. "EDGE-Industry" will just be three functions, and those will never be called outside of mrremind, so I see little point in putting them somewhere else. If EDGE-Buildings is big/complex enough it might be more reasonable to separate it.

At first sight, a shared config table across sectors does not seem practical to me but I'm not sure if this is what you thought of.

How so? You select all the switches (columns) you need, and get back the configuration for EDGE-Buildings (or Industry). The point is to have all this in one file and not spread out across the code. Or is your configuration more involved?

First draft under #116