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Influence of ozone in the tropical tropopause layer on the Indian Ocean surface temperatures

2018· dissertation· en· W2942585130 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Colnex C Okuku

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Nairobi Research Archive (University of Nairobi) · 2018
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicAtmospheric Ozone and Climate
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTropopauseOzoneClimatologyAtmospheric sciencesOzone layerEnvironmental scienceGeographyMeteorologyGeologyStratosphere
DOInot available

Abstract

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This study sought to investigate the distribution of ozone and temperature within the tropical tropopause layer and the linkages of ozone variability at the Chemopause level to sea surface temperature in Indian Ocean using ozonesonde data. The ozonesonde data sets were acquired from World Ozone and Ultra Violet radiation Data Center, Montreal, Canada and Southern Hemisphere Additional Data Ozonesonde while sea surface temperature (SST) data was obtained from the Hadley Centre hosted at United Kingdom Meteorological Office. Calculation of monthly and seasonal arithmetic mean, Potential temperature gradient, correlation, regression and multiplicative shift methods were used to realize the objectives of the study.
\nMean monthly and seasonal ambient air temperature, potential temperature gradient change with geopotential height, and vertical ozone mixing ratios were computed over Watukosek, Nairobi, Sepang and Malindi. Gridded SST data were extracted from three Indian Ocean regions namely; 60°E-70°E, 3°N-20°N; 55°E-60°E°, 33°S-26°S and 30°E-60°0E, 44°-40°S which were considered relevant for the forecast of seasonal rainfall over Kenya. The data sets were subjected to correlation and regression to establish relationship between Ozone and ambient temperature at chemopause level. The result was then subjected to a statistical significance test at 95% confidence level with two degrees of freedom using student t_test statistic. The main convective out flow leve for Watukosek, Nairobi, Sepang and Malindi was found to be at 13.6, 13.4, 14.0 and 13.7 km, respectively, above sea level. Cold point temperature tropopause was 16.6km for Watukosek, 17.2km for Nairobi, 18.2km for Sepang and 16.8 km for Malindi. The seasonal variability of ozone was found to be compact in the troposphere and slight variability in the tropopause layer. There were marked fluctuations of ozone in the stratosphere. The months of December, January and February had the lowest ozone mixing ratios in the troposphere while June, July and August exhibited the highest ozone mixing ratios over Nairobi and Sepang.
\nIt may be concluded that there is strong influence of SSTs at locations 60°E-70°E, 3°N-20°N, 55°E-60°E°, 33°S-26°S and 30°E-60°0E, 44°-40°S in Indian ocean to Nairobi equatorial continental ozone mixing ratios variability at 14.9km. Therefore, O3 mixing ratios may be used to predict seasonal weather/climate with a lead time of four months instead of SSTs over Kenya.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.436
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
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 head0.019
GPT teacher head0.238
Teacher spread0.219 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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