PIOMAS has higher resolution and the physics of the cyclone itself is taken care of in the NCEP / NCAR model, which is basically a forecasting model - and forecast models serve us well on a day to day basis forecasting
the weather on local scales.
Not exact matches
And while
weather models in a place like Seattle provide excellent detail
on a
local level, for Everest the models are not
on a regional
scale but rather a global one — for the entire continent of Asia or the Himalayan range.
Spend your trip enjoying Bali's famously balmy
weather on a lounge chair
on the terrace, taking refreshing swims in the private pool, practicing your putt
on your own (small -
scale) golf course or trying out
local specialties
on the barbecue.
I think that a more scientifically justifiable statement, at least for the U.S. and extratropical land areas is that daily
weather noise continues to drum out the siren call of climate change
on local,
weather scales.
While the large
scales, such as the global mean, provide the best indicators of the state of earth's climate, it is
on the
local scales we feel a climate change, such as floods and extreme
weather events.
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.»
... «When you hear a phrase like he said, «the highest ever,» you know, «off the charts,» «record setting,» that's a good sign that
on top of a whatever
local weather patterns there are or regional like El Nino, global warming, fossil fuel driven climate change is putting its finger
on the
scale and juicing the atmosphere and causing the even bigger
weather event than you would have otherwise seen.»
Another possible objection could be that the performance of GCMs
on the point basis is expected to be low because of the «noise» of
local (spatial or temporal)
weather conditions, whereas the performance should be higher at large spatial
scales.
At this point, the regional outlook
on ice conditions indicates that the large -
scale weather patterns, which dominated in August with cooler conditions and advection of ice into the eastern North American Arctic, can also help explain much of the observed ice distribution at the
local level.