Phases in Research

First uploaded on 2022/07/30
Last updated on 2024/04/24
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The research of science and technology is usually carried out in the following developmental phases:

• Phase-1 ... Proposal of a basic theory
• Phase-2 ... Verification by experiments and observations
• Phase-3 ... Application to practical problems

Since we have neither the observation instruments nor the computer environment to run heavy climate models, we cannot advance RDC research to the Phases-2 and 3 by ourselves. Given that few researchers understand RDC and RDC continues to be ignored, it will be difficult to generate new interest in the climate research community even if we continue our work on the underlying theory of RDC. Worse yet, if we do not have the means to correct the misinterpretations and the incorrect model calculations based on them, RDC research could easily be eliminated again. We do not want to repeat the same experience. We needed to find a way to be actively involved in the treatment of RDC so that it can remain a possibility in climatological research.

We have therefore decided to bypass Phase-2 and present "the RDC cumulus parameterization" that can be directly applied to Phase-3. To prevent the RDC scheme from being obliterated this time, we decided to release it as a copyrighted company product. We hope you understand that this is the only way we have arrived at to promote RDC research. Actually, this appears to have been a success, as it seems to have been able to attract the interest of far more people than when RDC was being evangelized on an individual basis. If RDC parameterization can produce the desired results within a practical three-dimensional time-developing atmospheric model, it may stimulate research motivation in the opposite direction (from Phase-3 to Phase-2 including observations) to move RDC research forward.

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We wrote the above article two years ago. At that time, we thought we had no choice but to bypass Phase 2 and present the practical RDC parameterization of Phase 3. This is because we learned that there is no sufficient observational technique to prove RDC in the real atmosphere. However, during these two years, we have found that it is possible as the first step in Phase-2 to perform a much simpler RDC analysis using existing numerical models. For the simplest one-time RDC analysis, you can use your current atmospheric model, either a cumulus-resolving model or a non-cumulus-resolving model. There is no need to modify the model code itself. All you need to do is run the model atmosphere and output once time-averaged values over any 10-hour interval. The simplest RDC analysis can be performed externally using a general boundary-value problem solver package. The specific method has been moved to Suggested Development Steps for RDC Parameterization. Please refer to it and try to perform the first step of Phase 2.