GFDL is currently working on the creation of a higher resolution coupled model with
smaller grid cells.
Is the solution in still larger models of
smaller grid cells?
The core problem is that essential heat convective processes (Lindzen's adaptive iris) occur at scales at least an order of magnitude smaller than
the smallest grid cells now computationally feasible.
Cloud droplets, for example, might be a couple hundredths of a millimeter in diameter, while
the smallest grid cells that are considered in a model may be more like a couple hundred kilometers across.
Not exact matches
The
cells that generate
smaller grids, with narrower spacing, are at the top of the entorhinal cortex, and those that generate bigger
grids are at the bottom.
The Mosers also found that the different
cells in the entorhinal cortex generate
grids of many different types, like overlapping honeycombs — big,
small and in every orientation and position relative to the box's border.
Even a relatively
small initial supply of the new
cells could bring solar power to remote locations that are not yet connected to any electrical
grid
His later work has branched into non-rectangular
grids, topographic map style regions of similar colors, CMYK color
grid work, and using larger
grids to make the
cell by
cell nature of his work obvious even in
small reproductions.
Morley depicts details: each calibrated digital image as a whole is fragmented into a
grid of
small squares or «
cells» as the artist calls them, from which Morley paints one discrete component at a time, turning the canvas upside down and sideways so that the abstract shape and color tonality of each part is addressed.
Given the pattern of migration to the suburbs and away from the large cities,
small towns and countryside any large
grid cell analysis claiming to capture the urban heat effect has to be nonsense.
This Homestead House is designed to function off of the standard utility
grid but it would be able to generate its own electricity with photovoltaic
cells and with a
small vertical axis wind turbine.
Popular in sub Saharan Africa, PayGo allows users who live off the
grid to use a
small and portable solar power system to have lights at night and a place to charge their
cell phone.
These convection
cells are at least one order of magnitude
smaller than the
smallest computable
grid cell (presently 1.1 degree or 120 km.
The latitudinal averages for HadCRUT4 closely match C&W (as you'd hope) but there are only a
small number of filled
grid cells in the highest latitudes.
Make the
grid cells as
small as computers will handle and you still have large input errors in representing surface albedo, temperature at screen height, sea surface roughness and a myriad of other variables.