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Record W7082969074 · doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.134258

Comparing the performance of convection-permitting WRF output with reanalysis datasets for glacier energy balance and hydrological modelling in the Central Himalaya

2025· article· en· W7082969074 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Hydrology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicMathematics, Computing, and Information Processing
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsWeather Research and Forecasting ModelGlacierGlacier mass balanceStreamflowForcing (mathematics)Climate changeEnergy balanceWater balanceTemporal scales

Abstract

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Global warming impacts water resources through rapid glacier retreats in the high-altitude and high-latitude regions, posing an immediate threat to ecosystems and human societies. So, exploring the warming-driven hydro-climatic changes is critical, particularly in the mountainous areas with extreme and complex topography, where geophysical processes function at a very find spatial and temporal scale. The under-representation of such scale-dependent processes in the existing literature has limited our ability to quantify glacier melt rate and changes in stream discharge accurately. In this study, we take Himalaya’s glaciated catchments (the Langtang catchment) as an example study area and employ a cloud-resolving atmospheric model (Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model) coupled with a fully distributed hydro-glacial model (WRF-Hydro/Glacier) to investigate how atmospheric processes – that are unique to extreme topographic settings – influence glacial melt in these regions. To establish the robustness of our approach, we also force the WRF-Hydro/Glacier model with the advanced global climate reanalysis datasets, which are widely referenced in the literature. We then evaluate the WRF-Hydro/Glacier output against surface observations, highlighting the superiority of the cloud-resolving WRF output in providing initial conditions to the hydro-glacial model. The representation of cloud processes in the high-resolution atmospheric model, a critical atmospheric mechanism that occurs at fine spatial and temporal scales, is significant in mountainous topography and is crucial in glacier energy balance and streamflow simulation. Therefore, this approach is essential for accurately assessing the impacts of climate change on high-altitude glaciated catchments worldwide.

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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: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.473
Threshold uncertainty score0.196

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
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

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Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.238
Teacher spread0.220 · 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