Macro, Meso, and Micro Climates

[John Reece]

Macro, Meso, and Micro Climates: The Importance of Trees in Urban Climates

Posted on July 16, 2014

Guest essay by Dr Tim Ball

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, -Joyce Kilmer

Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet life. – G. K. Chesterton.

Climate science is essentially limited to macroclimate, that is global, or at most hemispheric or continental. It’s primarily due to the influence of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – they can’t do small, or even medium. They rely on models and, as they acknowledge, spatial resolution, “…is generally not high enough to resolve tropical cyclones, and especially to simulate their intensity.” Figure 1 shows ...