Process study is the phenomenological approach used in

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. Process studies are used "to develop the parameterizations .g. of circulation models and observations reused to calibrate

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. A parametrization is a set of fitted equations to represent

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phenomena instead of deducing them from first principals. An example for a parametrized phenomenon are

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s which cannot be simulated within a circulation model if the spatial resolution of several km is too coarse to resolve single

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Other meanings

There is a journal entitled
Process Studies
'.

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