Sankey diagram

Read in example data and show a summary

This gallery uses a small selection of the data compiled for the IPCC’s Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (SR15). The complete scenario ensemble data is publicly available from the IAMC 1.5°C Scenario Explorer and Data hosted by IIASA.

Please read the License of the IAMC 1.5°C Scenario Explorer before using the full scenario data for scientific analyis or other work.

If you haven’t cloned the pyam GitHub repository to your machine, you can download the data file from https://github.com/IAMconsortium/pyam/tree/main/docs/examples_source

Make sure to place the data file in the same folder as this script/notebook.

import pyam
import plotly

df = pyam.IamDataFrame("sankey_data.csv")
df

<class 'pyam.core.IamDataFrame'>
Index:
 * model    : IMAGE 3.0.1 (1)
 * scenario : CD-LINKS_NPi2020_1000 (1)
Timeseries data coordinates:
   region   : World (1)
   variable : Final Energy|Electricity, ... (9)
   unit     : EJ/yr (1)
   year     : 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2025, 2030, 2035, 2040, ... 2100 (15)
Meta indicators:
   exclude (bool) False (1)

A simple Sankey diagram

We show a Sankey diagram of a subset of the energy system in the ‘CD-LINKS_NPi2020_1000’ scenario implemented by the ‘REMIND-MAgPIE 1.7-3.0’ model.

The sankey() function takes a dictionary to define flows, sources and targets:

{
    variable: (source, target),
}

sankey_mapping = {
    "Primary Energy|Coal": ("Coal Mining", "Coal Trade & Power Generation"),
    "Primary Energy|Gas": ("Natural Gas Extraction", "Gas Network & Power Generation"),
    "Secondary Energy|Electricity|Non-Biomass Renewables": (
        "Non-Biomass Renewables",
        "Electricity Grid",
    ),
    "Secondary Energy|Electricity|Nuclear": ("Nuclear", "Electricity Grid"),
    "Secondary Energy|Electricity|Coal": (
        "Coal Trade & Power Generation",
        "Electricity Grid",
    ),
    "Secondary Energy|Electricity|Gas": (
        "Gas Network & Power Generation",
        "Electricity Grid",
    ),
    "Final Energy|Electricity": ("Electricity Grid", "Electricity Demand"),
    "Final Energy|Solids|Coal": (
        "Coal Trade & Power Generation",
        "Non-Electricity Coal Demand",
    ),
    "Final Energy|Gases": ("Gas Network & Power Generation", "Gas Demand"),
}

fig = df.filter(year=2050).plot.sankey(mapping=sankey_mapping)
# calling `show()` is necessary to have the thumbnail in the gallery overview
plotly.io.show(fig)

/home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/pyam-iamc/envs/stable/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyam/figures.py:54: FutureWarning:

The series.append method is deprecated and will be removed from pandas in a future version. Use pandas.concat instead.