Global aerosol models are similar to regional aerosol models, but
with a coarser resolution, a broader geographic area, and a longer time span.
Not exact matches
For much of the global ocean the
coarser resolution is okay, but when you are studying a unique location like the Gulf of Maine,
with its complex bathymetry of deep basins, channels, and shallow banks combined
with its location near the intersection of two major ocean current systems, the output from the
coarser models can be misleading.»
In particular, the
coarse and heavily pixelated low
resolution and low pixels per inch screen made worse
with poor anti-aliasing, the very low color depth, the poor color gamut in ambient light, and also the poor viewing angle performance (because watches are not easily positioned for zero degree viewing).
Recently, high
resolution gridded baseline climatologies have been developed
with which
coarse resolution GCM results have been combined (e.g., Saarikko and Carter, 1996; Kittel et al., 1997).
The main adaptation is that climate - model GCMs have a
coarser «grid
resolution» that allows them to be run for a large number of model - years
with the computers available.
Unfortunately, the figure also confirms that the spatial
resolution of theoutput from the GCMs used in the Mediterranean study is too
coarse for constructing detailed regional scenarios.To develop more detailed regional scenarios, modelers can combine the GCM results
with output from statistical models.3 This is done by constructing a statistical model to explain the observed temperature or precipitation at a meteorological station in terms of a range of regionally - averaged climate variables.
With respect to hurricane intensity, there are observed trends indicating this and model results predicting this, and while there are problems in each (data problems with hurricanes, coarse resolution in global models, etc.), theoretical arguments also make clear that there will be more energy and water vapor available in the atmosphere to cause more intense hurricanes, so a very strong case can be made for this happen
With respect to hurricane intensity, there are observed trends indicating this and model results predicting this, and while there are problems in each (data problems
with hurricanes, coarse resolution in global models, etc.), theoretical arguments also make clear that there will be more energy and water vapor available in the atmosphere to cause more intense hurricanes, so a very strong case can be made for this happen
with hurricanes,
coarse resolution in global models, etc.), theoretical arguments also make clear that there will be more energy and water vapor available in the atmosphere to cause more intense hurricanes, so a very strong case can be made for this happening.
Land use and emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases are reported mostly at a 0.5 × 0.5 degree spatial
resolution,
with air pollutants also provided per sector (for well - mixed gases, a
coarser resolution is used).
The intent of downscaling is to achieve accurate, higher spatial
resolution of weather and other components of the climate system than is achievable
with the
coarser spatial
resolution global model.
The results from these models must still be treated
with caution as they can not capture the full complexity of these structures, due in part to the
coarse resolution in both the atmosphere and oceans of the majority of the models used (Chapter 8).
Their relatively good spectral
resolution makes infrared sounders very useful for the determination of cloud properties (day and night), and their
coarse spatial
resolution has less effect on clouds
with large spatial extents like cirrus clouds.
To estimate the uncertainty range (2σ) for mean tropical SST cooling, we consider the error contributions from (a) large - scale patterns in the ocean data temperature field, which hamper a direct comparison
with a
coarse -
resolution model, and (b) the statistical error for each reconstructed paleo - temperature value.
Coarser resolution results from four of the CMIP3 models were used as the boundary conditions for the NARCCAP regional climate model studies,
with each of the regional models doing analyses
with boundary conditions from two of the CMIP3 models.
However, global model projections have
coarse resolution,
with grid cell sizes of 200 × 200 km or more, reflecting limitations of the ocean GCM component of global coupled climate and ocean circulation — biogeochemical models.
Until we figure out how to do this on the weekly to seasonal time scales, trying to infer extreme events from
coarse resolution climate models
with insufficient number of ensemble members is like voodoo.
Via CO2science.org Near the start of the current century, Holland (2001) wrote that
with respect to contemporary state - of - the - art global climate models, «some physical processes are absent from the models,» while noting that in light of the
coarse -
resolution grids employed by the models, «some physical processes are ill resolved» and that others are actually «missing from...
Two parameterization configurations of the
coarse -
resolution model are used yielding a three - model suite
with significant variation in the transient climate response (TCR).
The
coarse resolution of global models, together
with regional uncertainties in precipitation, make it difficult to assess the probability of deflation becoming supply - limited consequent on wetting of the Bodélé and / or increased vegetation cover over the basin.