MOC Climate Processes and Variables
This map connects reusable climate-process notes that appear across regional modeling, Galapagos research, and open-science workflows.
Scope
This map connects cross-cutting process notes used in multiple domains.
Foundational climate concepts
Atmospheric and hydrological processes
- Precipitation
- Hydroclimate
- Evapotranspiration
- Occult precipitation
- Water balance
- Temperature inversion
- Marine boundary layer
- Stratocumulus
- Sea surface temperature
- Thermocline
- Atmospheric Scattering
- Tyndall Effect
- climate variable
- climate data
- radiation schemes
- convective rain
- convective available potential energy
- convective inhibition
- surface schemes
- cloud detrainment
- convective cloud fraction
Drivers and context
- El Nino-Southern Oscillation
- Galapagos seasonality
- Walker circulation
- ITCZ
- ERA5 reanalysis
- Dynamical downscaling
- Regional climate modeling
- Qaidam Basin
- Counterfactual climate data
- Sverdrup unit