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Record W7133009208

The Scattering of Internal Tides By Balanced Flows

2024· dissertation· W7133009208 on OpenAlexaff
Jeffrey Uncu

Bibliographic record

VenueTSpace · 2024
Typedissertation
Language
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicOceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFroude numberVortexScatteringInternal waveWind waveRossby waveSatelliteMeasure (data warehouse)Plane (geometry)Sea-surface height
DOInot available

Abstract

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The propagation of oceanic internal tides (IT) is influenced by their interactions with balancedvortical ocean flows. Satellite measurements are powerful tools to observe ocean flows globally but lack the temporal resolution to distinguish between balanced and IT flows using harmonic filtering. This presents a challenge for inferring ocean circulation and the propagation of ITs. We take two approaches to determine the strength of their interactions and the resulting impact on measuring ocean flows. The first is an idealized study where we model a plane wave interacting with an isolated (cyclo)geostrophic vortex using shallow water simulations. We vary the Rossby number, Ro, the Burger number, Bu, and the size of the vortex compared to the wave wavelength, K. We measure the percentage of wave energy scattering S for each simulation and find S ∝ (FrK)2 when S < 20, where Fr = Ro/√Bu is the Froude number. When S > 20, S plateaus. In the second approach, we train a deep learning model called U-Net on Boussinesq simulation data, which models a mode-1 IT propagating through quasi-geostrophic flows. The inputs to the model are combinations of the sea surface measurements for velocity U, temperature T, and height H, and the output is the wave component of the height field. Velocity U is the most valuable input, followed by H, and T hardly has any predictive power in isolation. When all three fields are used in combination as input, we obtain close to perfect performance. Lastly, we explore two alternative deep learning models to compare their strengths and weaknesses, namely, a cGAN with a novel spectral loss function, and a so-called deformation model. They do not show obvious improvements over the U-Net. These models give insight into which sea surface variables are most useful for disentangling ITs and balanced flows, and thus where resources should be allocated to ultimately measure ocean circulation.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation 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 score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.030

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.256
Teacher spread0.249 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2024
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