Glossary
In this section you will find all the terms I stumbled upon while reading papers
and didn’t know what they mean. Each term has two sections: First guess, where I
try to explain it without looking for the correct definition and using just the
context, and Definition, explained by some especialist or found at technical
literature.
- Climatological wind speed
- First guess:
- Not a clue.
- Definition:
- Explained by [Roberto de Almeida]_ :
- Ensemble
- First guess:
- Not a clue. “10-member ensemble average”?
- Definition:
- TODO
- General Circulation Model (GCM)
- First guess:
- It’s a type of model. Paper cites atmospheric and ocean versions.
- Definition:
- TODO
- Sigma level
- First guess:
- Not a clue. Can be unevenly spaced, and in the vertical.
- Definition:
- TODO
- Spectral global model
- First guess:
- Not a clue.
- Definition:
- TODO
- Spinup
- First guess:
- Process where you give some historical input to the model, to train it
before running the simulation.
- Definition:
- Explained by [Roberto de Almeida]_ : the model starts at rest state, and
it runs for some time (~500 years) with an climatological wind speed
(or another variable) to start fluid motion. He gave an example: if you want
to run a prediction starting at 1990, you let the model run for some time and
at some point start putting the real values for wind speed (ten years before
the start, for example) to ‘train’ the model and make it converge, so the
predictions are accurate.
- Surface scheme
- First guess:
- Seems to be the part of the model that represents ground level processes
that influences the simulation. Example: Simplified Simple
Biosphere Model
- Definition:
- TODO
- Triangular truncation
- First guess:
- Not a clue.
- Definition:
- TODO
- Wavenumber
- First guess:
- Not a clue. References sigma level.
- Definition:
- TODO