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Record W1983371395 · doi:10.1080/07055900.2012.656261

Interaction of an Intense Pacific Low Pressure System with a Strong Arctic Outbreak over British Columbia: Forecast Challenges of the Early December 2007 Storm

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Quanzhen Geng, Ruping Mo, Mindy Brugman, Brad Snyder, Jim Goosen, G. S. Pearce

Bibliographic record

VenueATMOSPHERE-OCEAN · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicMeteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Canadian institutionsCanadian Sport Centre PacificEnvironment and Climate Change Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsClimatologyNumerical weather predictionMeteorologyStormEnvironmental scienceArcticWinter stormSnowLow-pressure areaExtreme weatherStorm trackWeather Research and Forecasting ModelGeographyClimate changeAtmospheric pressureGeologyOceanography

Abstract

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The interaction of a warm moist air mass from an intense Pacific low pressure system with a cold air mass from a strong Arctic outbreak during 1–5 December 2007 produced a record number of high-impact weather events across British Columbia, including heavy snow, freezing rain, heavy rain, strong winds and extreme wind chill. The unusual concurrence of these two strong weather systems caused many forecast challenges for both the Canadian numerical weather prediction (NWP) models and meteorologists at the Pacific Storm Prediction Centre (PSPC) of Environment Canada. In this study, the evolution of the weather systems and the observed severe weather events during the 1–5 December 2007 storm are analyzed. Weather forecasts by the NWP models and PSPC meteorologists are compared with the observed high-impact weather events. It is shown that the Canadian NWP models forecast the storm reasonably well. Meteorologists at PSPC further improved the model forecasts by considering various local effects of the complex terrain over British Columbia that the model has difficulty resolving and model biases caused by inadequacies in its boundary layer parameterizations. R ésumé [Traduit par la rédaction] L'interaction d'une masse d'air chaud et humide issue d'une forte dépression dans le Pacifique avec une masse d'air froid générée par une forte coulée polaire entre le 1er et le 5 décembre 2007 a engendré un nombre record d’événements météorologiques à fort impact en Colombie-Britannique : neige abondante, pluie verglaçante, pluie forte, vents forts et indice extrêmement élevé de refroidissement éolien. Pour les modèles canadiens de prévision numérique du temps (NWP) et les météorologues du Centre de prévision des tempêtes du Pacifique (PSPC) d'Environnement Canada, la coïncidence inhabituelle de ces deux systèmes météorologiques forts a posé de nombreux défis. Dans la présente étude, nous analysons l’évolution des systèmes météorologiques et les intenses événements météorologiques observés au cours de la tempête survenue entre le 1er et le 5 décembre 2007. Nous comparons les prévisions de la météo établies à partir des résultats des modèles NWP et par les météorologues du PSPC avec les événements météorologiques à fort impact qui ont été observés. Nous démontrons que les modèles canadiens de NWP, ont prédit raisonnablement bien l’évolution de la tempête. Les météorologues au PSPC ont rajusté à leur tour les prévisions établies par ces modèles en intégrant les divers effets locaux des terrains accidentés en Colombie-Britannique, qui sont difficiles à résoudre par ces modèles, et leurs biais attribuables au manque de précision des paramétrages de la couche limite.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.083
Threshold uncertainty score0.168

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.205
Teacher spread0.189 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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