Fire weather of a Canterbury Northwester on 6 February 2011 in South Island, New Zealand
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Foehn winds, known locally as the "Canterbury Northwester", occurred on 6 February 2011 \nand were associated with extreme fire weather in the lee of the Southern Alps and across \nthe eastern South Island of New Zealand. A peak air temperature of 40.7˚C was recorded at \nTimaru, which compares with the national record of 42.4˚C set at Rangiora in 1973 during \nanother Northwester. The primary objective of this study was to investigate the fire weather \nand the synoptic and mesoscale atmospheric processes associated with the Northwester. \nThis was achieved through analysis of weather station data and a high-resolution Weather \nResearch and Forecasting (WRF) model simulation. The fire weather was assessed through \nconsideration of observable weather variables and New Zealand's version of the Fire \nWeather Index (FWI) in the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System. The WRF model \nresults suggest that internal gravity waves were present in the lee of the Southern Alps and \nconsiderably affected fire weather across the eastern South Island. The FWI was recorded \nat extreme values, due to a combination of high air temperatures and wind speeds, and low \nrelative humidity. This study provides a better understanding of the mesoscale atmospheric \ndynamics and fire weather associated with the Canterbury Northwester.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".