Multimodal Measurement Framework for Thunderstorm Charge Motion: Spatiotemporal Sensor Fusion With Bayesian-Optimized Localization
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Abstract
The accurate measurement of thunderstorm cloud point charge motion is critical for analyzing thunderstorm dynamics but remains challenging due to the limitations of single-modal atmospheric electric field (AEF) data. This paper presents an enhanced multimodal sensor fusion framework that synergizes three-dimensional (3D) AEF measurements with radar echo intensity (REI) and precipitation data. The methodology introduces several key instrumentation advancements: 1) A spatiotemporal calibration method that resolves the sampling rate conflict (1s AEF vs. 6min radar) and incorporates two AEF features other than statistics—amplitude of change and zero-crossing time—to better capture non-stationary AEF signal dynamics; 2) A physics-constrained feature fusion strategy that integrates the AEF features with REI and precipitation data, followed by a Cohen’s d-based selection to construct a highly discriminative feature vector; 3) A multi-objective Bayesian optimization scheme for the random forest model, simultaneously minimizing classification error and model complexity; and 4) A trajectory post-processing module that applies smoothing and denoising to the 3D point charge localization results, yielding physically plausible motion paths. Validated against multiple weather events, the framework demonstrates superior performance in weather attribute classification and achieves dynamic, high-fidelity visualization of charge trajectories that show strong consistency with independent radar observations, establishing a new channel for extreme weather monitoring.
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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