Process study is the
phenomenological approach used in
climatology
Climatology (from Greek , ''klima'', "slope"; and , '' -logia'') or climate science is the scientific study of Earth's climate, typically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of at least 30 years. Climate concerns the atmospher ...
. Process studies are used "to develop the parameterizations
.g. of circulation models and observations
reused to calibrate
he 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
thunderstorm
A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a lightning storm, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustics, acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder. Relatively weak thunderstorm ...
s 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
Process Studies'.
References
Climate modeling
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