My current methodology is two-fold. I am investigating the network of prominent authors as well as their institutional affiliation. I am also investigating the forces that influence my research like the algorithms and programs. In addition, I am evaluating the validity of the how well these algorithms classify cloud type.
I feel like my methodology does naturally scale in and out a little bit since I am considering the large organizations and well as the little pieces of code that actually have a very large history. I think that my research exists on quite a small scale, although my research doesn’t have an obvious spatial scale.
Theoretically, I could be looking at cloud regimes instead of individual clouds. Scaling out would mean different instrumentation, probably satellites. The TSI just shows the sky as a human does, but a satellite can show the whole atmosphere.