On the simulation of winter precipitation types
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Winter storms produce major problems for society, and the key responsible factor is often the varying types of precipitation. The objective of this study is to better understand the formation of different types of winter precipitation (freezing rain, ice pellets, snow, slush, wet snow and refrozen wet snow) within the varying and interacting environmental conditions in many winter storms. To address this issue, a one‐dimensional cloud model utilizing a double‐moment bulk microphysics scheme has been developed. Temperature and moisture profiles favorable for the formation of different winter precipitation types were varied in a systematic manner in an environment where snow is falling continuously through a temperature inversion. The ensuing precipitation evolved as a result of the variations in atmospheric temperature and moisture arising from phase changes such as melting and freezing. This study underlines the often complex manner through which different precipitation types form. It also demonstrates that the formation of semimelted particles can have a profound effect on the evolution of precipitation types aloft and at the surface. Furthermore, some types of precipitation only form within a narrow range of environmental conditions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".