An Extreme Tropical Cyclone Silence in the Western North Pacific in July 2020
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Abstract
The western North Pacific (WNP) tropical cyclone (TC) number in July 2020 hit a record low since 1949, with no TC formation throughout July. It is shown that this record-breaking TC event can be largely attributed to the extremely strong lower-level anticyclone and subsidence over the TC-genesis-prone region (GPR), concurrent with an intensified western Pacific subtropical high (WPSH) there. This configuration is closely linked to both the air–sea interaction in the tropical Indo-western Pacific and the vigorous wave activities over the mid-high latitude Eurasia. The warming western Indian Ocean and the resultant active convection excited an anomalous lower-level anticyclone and descending atmospheric Kelvin wave over the GPR, together with a strengthened WPSH. Accompanied with this monthly background field, long-lasting Madden-Julian Oscillation was confined west of 90°E, which intensified the proposed anticyclonic vorticity and decreased the moisture condition in the South China Sea and tropical WNP. Meanwhile, two active wave fluxes prevailed across the jet streams over the mid-high latitude Eurasia with a quasi-barotropic cyclonic abnormity dominating from Northeast China to Japan. The resultant positive potential vorticity on its south excited the anomalous local ascending around 35°N, which favoured the upper-level convergence in the tropical WNP and reinforced the local subsidence through modulating the meridional circulation. This extratropical impact further aggravated the suppressed circulation condition for TC formation and increased the chance that the extreme tropical cyclone silence would happen.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".