microphysical

Improvements include increases in atmospheric resolution, height of the model top, sea ice dynamics, representation of atmospheric chemistry, improved cloud microphysical schemes, modeling of the terrestrial biosphere and vegetation interactions with climate, among other things Schmidt et al 2006; Randall et al 2007.

Rabett Run EliRabett 2009

Improvements include increases in atmospheric resolution, height of the model top, sea ice dynamics, representation of atmospheric chemistry, improved cloud microphysical schemes, modeling of the terrestrial biosphere and vegetation interactions with climate, among other things Schmidt et al 2006; Randall et al 2007.

Archive 2009-03-01 EliRabett 2009

Panentheism lacks an explanation for a causal efficacy higher than the causal efficacy realized by microphysical causation (2003, 19).

Panentheism Culp, John 2009

If the choice is to be an SFW, then it is required that the strength of this effort be indeterminate; Kane likens its indeterminacy to that of the position or momentum of a microphysical particle.

Incompatibilist (Nondeterministic) Theories of Free Will Clarke, Randolph 2008

Scaling the microphysical equations is quite illuminating, especially when there are large errors in the winds coming from a global model.

Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit 2007

There are 9 different versions of microphysical schemes, 3 longwave radiation schemes, 4 shortwave radiation schemes, 2 subsurface layer schemes, 3 land surface schemes, 3 planetary boundary layer schemes, 3 cumulus schemes, multiple diffusion and damping options, etc.

Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit 2007

IN CONTRAST….the processes controlling precipitation efficiency are hidden from us, within the clouds where microphysical processes are doing their thing.

Water Vapor Feedback « Climate Audit 2007

Before I spend time doing so for the NCAR climate model, you might first want to peruse the manuscript by Chungu Lu et al. that discusses the typical microphysical schemes I mentioned earlier.

Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit 2007

And how many lines for the simple dynamics versus all of the boundary smoothing, time filtering, different microphysical parameterizations, different boundary conditions, parallelization, etc.

Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit 2007

That manuscript shows just how many free parameters there are in a typical microphysical scheme.

Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit 2007