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

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Category:Climate modeling

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