Winter Storm Activity across Canada at the End of the Century: A CMIP5 Multi-model Projection
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Extratropical cyclones are the main source of precipitation in most of Canada. They bring hazardous weather events like blizzards, heavy snow, freezing rain, etc. They also supply fresh water through spring snow melt and maintain the soil and surface water balance in sub-humid and semi-arid regions. Any future changes in extratropical cyclone activity over Canada may have a significant impact on agriculture and the local economies of the various regions. Future changes in regional storm activity over Canada have not been studied in detail. Therefore, we examined potential changes in extratropical storm activity by the end of the century using data from six models from CMIP5 under historical and future (RCP 8.5) emission scenarios. A statistical analysis of selected storm activity indices, using a storm identification and tracking algorithm, revealed a decrease in the number of storms over the mid-latitude regions of Canada. However, intense storms with a longer duration are projected over all regions at the end of the century. A further investigation of the physical mechanisms revealed that a decrease in the meridional temperature gradient over the mid-latitude regions and shifting of the vertical wind shear are responsible for these expected changes in storm activity.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".