Parametric analysis
Competence frameworks for the built environment – Core criteria for sustainability competence - Code of practice , Version 3, published by the Edge for the Construction Industry Council in February 2025, defines parametric analysis as: ‘the technique of representing processes that cannot be explicitly resolved at the spatial or temporal resolution of the model (sub-grid scale processes) by relationships between model-resolved larger-scale variables and the area- or time-averaged effect of such subgrid scale processes.’
Ref IPCC, Sixth Assessment Report, Annex VII - Glossary.
See also: Parametric modelling.
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