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Towards a more reliable historical reanalysis: Improvements for version 3 of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis system

2019· article· en· 1,041 citations· W2954976262 on OpenAlex· 10.1002/qj.3598

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Full frame distilled prediction

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.

Candidate categories
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Consensus categories
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Domain
Candidate signal: noneConsensus signal: none
Study design
Candidate signal: Simulation or modelingConsensus signal: none
Genre
Candidate signal: EmpiricalConsensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score
0.407
Threshold uncertainty score
0.348
Validation status
machine_predicted_unvalidated · codex-gemma-dda1882f352a

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0020.000
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Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

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.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.217
Teacher spread
0.207 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
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

Abstract

Historical reanalyses that span more than a century are needed for a wide range of studies, from understanding large‐scale climate trends to diagnosing the impacts of individual historical extreme weather events. The Twentieth Century Reanalysis (20CR) Project is an effort to fill this need. It is supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and is facilitated by collaboration with the international Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth initiative. 20CR is the first ensemble of sub‐daily global atmospheric conditions spanning over 100 years. This provides a best estimate of the weather at any given place and time as well as an estimate of its confidence and uncertainty. While extremely useful, version 2c of this dataset (20CRv2c) has several significant issues, including inaccurate estimates of confidence and a global sea level pressure bias in the mid‐19th century. These and other issues can reduce its effectiveness for studies at many spatial and temporal scales. Therefore, the 20CR system underwent a series of developments to generate a significant new version of the reanalysis. The version 3 system (NOAA‐CIRES‐DOE 20CRv3) uses upgraded data assimilation methods including an adaptive inflation algorithm; has a newer, higher‐resolution forecast model that specifies dry air mass; and assimilates a larger set of pressure observations. These changes have improved the ensemble‐based estimates of confidence, removed spin‐up effects in the precipitation fields, and diminished the sea‐level pressure bias. Other improvements include more accurate representations of storm intensity, smaller errors, and large‐scale reductions in model bias. The 20CRv3 system is comprehensively reviewed, focusing on the aspects that have ameliorated issues in 20CRv2c. Despite the many improvements, some challenges remain, including a systematic bias in tropical precipitation and time‐varying biases in southern high‐latitude pressure fields.

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The record

Venue
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Topic
Climate variability and models
Field
Environmental Science
Canadian institutions
McGill UniversityEnvironment and Climate Change CanadaUniversity of Toronto
Funders
Climate Program OfficeFundação para a Ciência e a TecnologiaNatural Environment Research CouncilHorizon 2020 Framework ProgrammeOffice of ScienceUniversidade de LisboaAustralian Research CouncilUniversidade de CoimbraLamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia UniversityNarodowym Centrum NaukiInstituto Dom Luiz, Universidade de LisboaUniversity of AberdeenNational Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationSight Research UKBiological and Environmental ResearchU.S. Department of CommerceCooperative Institute for Research in Environmental SciencesJustus Liebig Universität GießenUniversitat de BarcelonaDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK GovernmentStockholms UniversitetNorth Carolina State UniversityH2020 European Research CouncilNational Centers for Environmental InformationDeutscher Akademischer AustauschdienstHelsingin YliopistoU.S. Department of EnergyUniversity of BernMet Office
Keywords
ClimatologyData assimilationEnvironmental scienceEarth system scienceMeteorologyAtmospheric researchPrecipitationAtmospheric pressureGeographyGeology
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