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Charlie Heaps 11/30/2017
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We are delighted to announce the immediate release of a major new version of LEAP. LEAP 2018 brings important new capabilities including:
- The New Integrated Benefits Calculator (IBC) for estimating health (mortality), ecosystem (crop loss) and climate (temperature change) impacts of your LEAP scenarios. IBC is particularly useful for examining the multiple benefits of taking coordinated action on long-lived and short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) and local air pollutants.
- New Capabilities for Modeling of Land-use Change, Forestry, and Land-based Resources: These new features can currently be used to assess Biomass Energy Strategies of the type currently being conducted in a number of African countries, and they also form a foundation for future updates that will support land-use change and forestry sector greenhouse gas mitigation assessment.
- New map-based results visualization capabilities, to help users visually explore the geographic implications of their scenarios.
- A 64-Bit version for building huge LEAP models.
- Improved stakeholder interactions through an upgraded Overviews screen, and
- Many other improvements to LEAP's modeling capabilities that make it more powerful and easier to use.
Full details of the new features are available here.
As always, this new version is backwards compatible with data sets developed in earlier versions of LEAP, and you can safely install this new version over older versions. You can download the new version here. To get access to the new mapping capabilities, you must do a full download, rather than use LEAP's built-in update feature.
