# Process study

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'''Process study''' is the [phenomenological approach](/source/phenomenological_model) used in [climatology](/source/climatology). Process studies are used "to develop the parameterizations [e.g. of circulation models], and observations [are] used to calibrate [the latter]".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cronin |first1=Meghan F. |last2=Legg |first2=Sonya |author-link2=Sonya Legg |last3=Zuidema |first3=Paquita |date=1 July 2009 |title=Climate Research: Best Practices For Process Studies |journal=Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society |volume=90 |issue=7 |pages=917–918 |doi=10.1175/2009BAMS2622.1 |bibcode=2009BAMS...90..917C |doi-access=free}}</ref> A [parametrization](/source/Parametrization_(atmospheric_modeling)) is a set of fitted equations to represent [physical](/source/physics) phenomena instead of [deducing](/source/Deductive_reasoning) them from [first principals](/source/First_principles). An example for a parametrized phenomenon are [thunderstorm](/source/thunderstorm)s which cannot be simulated within a [circulation model](/source/General_circulation_model) if the spatial resolution of several [km](/source/km) is too coarse to resolve single [storm cell](/source/storm_cell).

==Other meanings==
There is a journal entitled ''[http://secure.pdcnet.org/process/Process-Studies Process Studies]''.

==References==
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