A theoretical biologist at Princeton University, she wanted to understand how nature creates patterns
on different spatial scales — from tigers» stripes to landscape - level phenomena such as fairy circles.
While the paper has been under review, two of us made two detailed accounts of condensation - induced dynamics on two
drastically different spatial scales — hurricanes and tornadoes.
The authors are still processing the observations collected during the voyage, which was funded by the National Science Foundation, to understand mixing
on different spatial scales.
Predictor and predictand can be the same variables on
different spatial scales (e.g., Bürger, 1997; Wilks, 1999b; Widmann and Bretherton, 2000), but more commonly are different.
In the end, the report found 18 metrics of concern, and each of these needed to be monitored on four
different spatial scales.