Further Analysis of CSU SCM Results From the SGP CART Site
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Randall et al. (1996) summarized a strategy for testing parameterizations in single-column models (SCMs). The SCM is driven with observations and the results produced by the SCM are compared with additional observations of the same meteorological events. When the SCM’s parameterizations are judged to have performed satisfactorily in tests against observations, they can be transplanted into a three-dimensional atmospheric general circulation model (GCM).
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