Depolarized radar return for breaking wave measurement and hurricane wind retrieval
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
O. M. Phillips (1988) elucidated the double structure of sea surface scatterers for radar scattering from the ocean surface. The wind generates a distribution of small slope waves and sporadic steep breaking events. The signature of double structure is in the wind speed dependence of radar returns: linear for scattering from gentle waves and cubic for breaking contribution. The composite Bragg (CB) theory successfully describes the former. The breaking contribution remains elusive. Here we show that the depolarized (de‐pol) radar return exhibits the typical double structure, its wind speed dependence increases with wind speed from linear to cubic. The enhanced sensitivity of de‐pol returns in high winds is ideal for hurricane wind retrieval. The strong breaking connection offers an opportunity to measure wave breaking and associated energy dissipation and area of foam coverage from space, their quantification is important in air‐sea interaction and electromagnetic and electro‐optical remote sensing.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it