As noted above, there is some indication from
high resolution models of substantial increases in the numbers of the most intense hurricanes even if the overall number of tropical storms or hurricanes decreases.
With higher resolution models, researchers hope to be able to analyze storm simulations that would allow them to determine which types of storms form tornadoes with more certainty.
Reading e-Books is very solid, and unless you put the Touch 2.0 side by side
against higher resolution models such as the Kindle Voyage, or Kobo Glo HD you don't notice the diminished resolution.
Higher resolution models tended to get more hurricane formation (perhaps unsurprisingly), with quarter - degree models parameterized using observed SSTs generally capturing historical hurricane formation rates fairly accurately.
That same day I met Synte Peacock, a former Ph.D. student of mine, in the cafeteria and we decided to use the NCAR -
LANL high resolution model to perform some dye release studies.
Balanced against this,
higher resolution modelling studies typically project substantial increases in the frequency of the most intense cyclones, and increases of the order of 20 % in the precipitation rate within 100 km of the storm centre.
This most recent work brings the G.F.D.L. modeling into better agreement with predictions by other groups that also used
very high resolution models.
With more accurate representation of mountainous terrain,
the higher resolution model is better able to simulate snow and rain in those regions.
The higher resolution model better reflects the ocean circulation and sea floor bathymetry in smaller, complex areas like the Gulf of Maine and the U.S. Northeast Shelf.
NOAA GFDL's
highest resolution model, CM2.6, significantly reduces that bias.
Berzins, Bunge and Goodyer are aiming to develop
a higher resolution model of skin so that they can predict how skin structure affects the rate of chemical penetration through skin and give a level of confidence for their result.
Project scientist Dr Erwan Thebault from the University of Nantes in France said: «This is
the highest resolution model of the lithospheric magnetic field ever produced.
This model, which divides the ocean into nearly 15,000 three - dimensional regions and calculates the cycles for each region, is by far
the highest resolution model ever applied to the ancient Earth.
The HRRR is a very short term,
high resolution model that NOAA is now running that provides neighborhood / town scale forecasts and is assimilating radar and other rapidly available data.
Even for mean climate, no comprehensive assessment of the surface climatology of variable or
high resolution models has been attempted.
There are other reasons to judge
the high resolution model reliable.
The spatial resolution of an average IPCC AR4 climate model is about 55,350 square kilometers, or a square 235 km on a side (
the highest resolution models resolve areas as small as 100 km on a side).
This suggests that the main conclusions from our study on the long - term predictability of hydrological processes are likely to hold for
the higher resolution models and the real world.
HiRAM is
a high resolution model of the atmosphere and land surface, with the ocean surface conditions prescribed.
In this case,
the higher resolution model shows a somewhat larger transient reduction in MOC strength in a Greenland hosing experiment than the coarser model does.
While
these high resolution models don't resolve all of the vertical transports, global models with horizontal grid size of 1 km or so will clearly help a lot.
The higher resolution models showed the development of thunderstorms with much more representative intensity and location, which was very similar to the radar data from the actual time, shown below.»