Process study
Process study is the phenomenological approach used in climatology and may be defined as the way towards "understanding [which is] necessary to develop the parameterizations [e.g. of circulation models], and observations [are] used to calibrate them"[1]; parametrization means that not all physical phenomena (e.g. thunderstorms) can be simulated within a circulation model (e.g. because the spatial resolution is too coarse) and the phenomena are represented by effective, fitted equations instead of being deduced from first principals.
References
- ^ Cronin, Meghan F. (1 July 2009). "CLIMATE RESEARCH: Best Practices For Process Studies". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 90 (7): 917–918. doi:10.1175/2009BAMS2622.1.
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