Process study
Process study is the phenomenological approach used in climatology. Process studies are used "to develop the parameterizations [e.g. of circulation models], and observations [are] used to calibrate [the latter]". A parametrization is a set of fitted equations to represent physical phenomena instead of deducing them from first principals. An example for a parametrized phenomenon are thunderstorms which cannot be simulated within a circulation model if the spatial resolution of several km is too coarse to resolve single storm cell.
Process study is the phenomenological approach used in climatology. Process studies are used "to develop the parameterizations [e.g. of circulation models], and observations [are] used to calibrate [the latter]".[1] A parametrization is a set of fitted equations to represent physical phenomena instead of deducing them from first principals. An example for a parametrized phenomenon are thunderstorms which cannot be simulated within a circulation model if the spatial resolution of several km is too coarse to resolve single storm cell.
Other meanings
[edit]There is a journal entitled Process Studies.
References
[edit]- ^ Cronin, Meghan F.; Legg, Sonya; Zuidema, Paquita (1 July 2009). "Climate Research: Best Practices For Process Studies". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 90 (7): 917–918. Bibcode:2009BAMS...90..917C. doi:10.1175/2009BAMS2622.1.
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