Rather, certain areas — locations where there were
likely microscale cracks and other surface defects — would experience intense local corrosion resulting in the sudden appearance of pits.
The large - scale climate, for instance, determines the environment for
microscale (1 km or less) and mesoscale (from several kilometers to several hundred kilometers) processes that govern weather and local climate, and these small - scale processes
likely have significant impacts on the evolution of the large - scale circulation.»