Climatological features of orographic low‐level jets over frobisher bay
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract In this study, based on an analysis of operational hourly surface and 12‐hourly upper air data, the seasonal and diurnal climatological features of orographic low‐level jets and associated vertical wind shear over Frobisher Bay, southern Baffin Island are discussed. These strong winds are a common phenomenon and frequently lead to hazardous flying conditions and hardship on the ground. The influence of the surrounding topography causes significant channelling of the surface wind at Iqaluit, with prevailing wind directions consequently being from the north‐west and south‐east. Shifts between the dominant wind directions occur with surface geostrophic winds roughly perpendicular to the valley axis, indicating the controlling influence of large‐scale pressure gradients and vertical momentum transfer, in combination with local channelling effects, on the forcing of weak and strong surface winds. Following seasonal shifts in the large‐scale surf ace pressure distribution, there is a shift in prevailing wind direction from north‐west in winter to south‐east in summer. The importance of the topography for the forcing of boundary‐layer flows is also evident in the presence of speed maxima at the typical ridge‐top level and below, associated with strong along‐valley surface winds. The adjustment of the channelled boundary‐layer flow to the large‐scale flow conditions above the topography frequently leads to strong vertical wind shear and low‐level turbulence. Distinct characteristics of weak and strong surface winds from different directions at Iqaluit are identified, including differences in vertical wind shear and the relationship of these winds to the surface geostrophic wind.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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