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Quantification of the impact of latent heat associated with the freezing of supercooled drops at the surface during freezing rain over Eastern Canada

2025· article· en· W4409316627 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueAtmospheric Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicIcing and De-icing Technologies
Canadian institutionsUniversité du Québec à Montréal
FundersGlobal Water FuturesFonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologiesAlliance de recherche numérique du CanadaNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanada Research ChairsCanada Foundation for Innovation
KeywordsSupercoolingLatent heatFreezing rainEnvironmental scienceMeteorologyAtmospheric sciencesMaterials scienceGeologyPrecipitationGeography

Abstract

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The formation of winter precipitation is driven by ice-phase and liquid-phase processes, with the energy required for melting and freezing affecting both temperature and precipitation type. A major freezing rainstorm occurred in early April 2023 over Eastern Canada, causing damage to infrastructure and impacting the economy. The goal of this study is to investigate the impact of the latent heat release associated with freezing rain on the 2-m air temperature and the type of precipitation that reaches the surface. To illustrate the impacts of latent heat, the April storm was simulated using the Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) model with the modified Predicted Particle Properties (P3) scheme. It was observed that the release of latent heat from freezing rain led to a rise in the 2-m air temperature, with rain recorded when temperatures exceeded 0 °C. The median cumulative freezing rain showed a 34.4 % decrease, while time for the median temperature to reach 0 °C decreased by 2.5 h. The results from the model suggest that temperature advection played a role in balancing the precipitation phase change. This study contributes to our knowledge of processes associated with maintaining or stopping freezing rain and improves our ability to mitigate its hazards. • Latent heat associated with freezing rain contributes to the increase of the low-level air temperature. • The latent heat associated with freezing rain may limit freezing rain amount. • Thermal advection and freezing rain onset temperature can also impact precipitation transition from freezing rain to rain.

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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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.361
Threshold uncertainty score0.882

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
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)

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Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.275
Teacher spread0.255 · 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