Promising new approach allows global and regional climate models to share process information
Monday, June 30, 2014 - 07:00
in Earth & Climate
A new climate modeling approach that combines a detailed regional model with a more wide-ranging global model was developed by a team of researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in collaboration with the University of Wyoming. This approach, described in a recent article in the journal Geoscientific Model Development, improves the way models represent atmospheric particles, clouds, and particle-cloud interactions and how they vary at regional and local scales. The approach minimizes inconsistencies in how process information is parameterized—that is, translated into simplifications that well represent process complexity.