High - resolution simulations are being performed that resolve the local and regional variations of particulate characteristics to obtain a better understanding of
important aerosol processes that need to be incorporated into larger - scale climate models.
Not exact matches
Regional
aerosol models represent
important aerosol properties and
processes by integrating a suite of property and
process models for a limited geographic area over a limited time span.
Why it matters:
Aerosol processes — how they behave and interact with clouds in the atmosphere — are among the most
important — yet most difficult to simulate, aspects of climate modeling.
I was told by one semi-expert climate scientist (someone who was in the
process of changing fields to climate science from a different numerical modeling field, as so possibly still catching up) that although globally
aerosols played the most
important role in this period, there was also around the same time period (maybe beginning slightly earlier?
Organic ‐ coated
aerosols are believed to play an
important role in atmospheric
processes thereby influencing global climate.
Here, in part I, I'll review some of the basic
processes that are
important in determining the climate effects of
aerosols, focusing in particular on their formation.
BAECC was designed to obtain
important details on
processes related to
aerosol, cloud, and snow formation that are not currently well understood or well represented in earth system models.
For a comprehensive GCM I can count oceans, land, atmosphere, ice, biological
processes, organic and inorganic chemical
processes, human - made sources and other effects, radiative energy transport, conduction and convective heat transfer, phase change, clouds and
aerosols, as some of the
important system components, phenomena, and
processes.