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This paper describes the principles behind the method of ComparativeJudgement, and in particular Adaptive Comparative Judgement, a technique borrowed frompsychophysics which is able to generate extremely reliable results for educationalassessment, and which is based on the kind of holistic evaluation that we assume was thebasis for judgement in pre-marking days, and that the users of assessment results expectour assessment schemes to capture

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concept of cloud-climate feedbacks

feedbacks associated with various aspects of the climate system, such as clouds

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discover a low-dimensional manifold while learning the system dynamics

AI-based weather

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EOF3 describes a distinctive east/west gradient

fferent solutions for tropical deep convection, depending on what boundary layer scheme is used

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show strongly suppressed cold pooldensity currents versus a Control simulation. Yet we find no statistically significant difference between the diurnal cycles ofMCS counts, with continued nocturnal propagation of storms

according to which it is only the mass convergence aloft that has an effect on the hydrostatic surface pressure

vorticity (PV) downstream of high topography

Scientific colour maps

2015 LEAF

apparently nonstationary visualbehavior arises because of the non-Gaussian statistic

purely random fluctuations expected from stationary timeseries

The interactions can result in predator–prey cycles in moisture mode activity and Hadley cell strength that are akin to ITCZ breakdown.

iltered water vapor imagery

external gravity (or Lamb) waves excited by the Tonga explosion

Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) Operational Product Viewer

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ATM 752  Vortex Dynamics

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Statistical Modeling

Predictability

Numerical Methods

Air-Sea Interaction

ENSO

Coastal

Turbulence

Defininations: heatwave: at least three consecutive days in which the maximum 2-meter air temperature exceeds the 90th percentiles.  The consecutive days of heatwave is counted within a month, which is the same in other variables, such as CDD, CSDI, CWD, LCS, and LWS.   cold spell: the minimum 2-meter air temperature be less than the 10th percentiles.   warm spell: the maximum 2-meter air temperature exceeds the 90th percentiles.    percentiles: in this collection they are based on daily temperature and precipitation fields, and calculated using a running window of +/- 7 days centered on each day of the year for the climatology period of 1991-2020 in Version 2 (1981-2010 in Version 1).

Climate Statistics Products

maximum number of consecutive days when precipitation < 1 mm

percentage of time when daily max 2-m temperature < 10th percentile

percentage of time when daily min 2-m temperature

Monthly Percentiles

Daily

The monthly percentiles indicate atwhich percentile the monthly mean falls relative to the 1991-2020 period.

ercentiles were calculated using a running window of +/- 7 days centered on each day ofthe year for the climatology period of 1991 through 2020 for version 2 products.

MRMS multi-radar multi-senso

Effects of SST on surface wind stress

Gravity wave packets

Baiu Front Okinawa

Column water vapor in the spin-up of an aquaplanet

Rossby wave dispersion

evolving lowpass filtered fields act as a "steering flow” for the high pass filtered perturbations

Equatorially-trapped waves

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PV on the 850 hPa surface

strength of the condensation heating in the model can be controlled by specifying the relative humidity

both LC1 and LC2

a new center develops nearer to the coast and quickly becomes dominant

intense cyclone comes ashore near San Francisco

well defined

10-day interval, six or seven systems

shear instability

cold continental air masses flow over the warmer offshore waters

Hourly CO concentration

summer drawdown due to the uptake of CO2 by the boreal forests

those shown in Part II move in tandem with features embedded in the base of the updraft, indicative of a deeper structure

aerosols are categorized by tint: dust (orange), smoke (red) organic/black carbon (green), and sulfates (white)

CONDA_SUBDIR=osx-64 conda create

a cloud or moisture feature

Satellite Derived Winds

Derived Motion Winds

Geo2Grid

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MODEL INTERPRETATION

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ATMOSPHERIC MOIST CONVECTION Annual Review

Up-scale growth thus occurs as a continuing amplification oflarge scales after small scales saturate, which begs the question of what sets the shape of the saturation(climatological) power spectra. Wind spectra are nearly power-law with a logarithmic slope of about −5/3in the free troposphere, remarkably so in the 2D runs and clearly distinct from slope −2 (a null hypoth-esis of spectrally white wind divergence). A common interpretation of −5/3 slope − as indicative of a cas-cade, a steady conservative transfer of energy from source to sink scales by interactions that are local inlog-wavelength space − is hard to apply to these moist tropical waves.

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The Great Master’s-Degree Swindle

that more knowledge about climateintervention approaches and their consequences will help society make informed, justdecisions about the deployment of climate intervention. AGU is not taking a position aboutspecific climate interventions, but AGU is making the case that a robust body of scientificevidence about climate intervention and an ethical framework should be available

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CONCEPT MAPPING: A USEFUL TOOL FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION

Wereserve some flexibility in how exactly to define these quantities

define the so-called null hypothesis, which in some sense states the opposite

Middle band is for AL/SI = 1/4, e.g., 1 season sampled once per year.

Distribution of Helicity, CAPE, and Shear in Tropical Cyclones

Factors contributing to tornadogenesis in landfalling Gulf of Mexico tropical cyclones

Parameter for Forecasting Tornadoes Associated with Landfalling Tropical Cyclones

Environmental ingredients for supercells and tornadoes within Hurricane Ivan.

The dominant deep convective heating process changes from latent heating at low levels to eddy heat-flux convergence in the upper troposphere. This requires a substantial updraught-environment temperature difference

within

3.1 Static instability

ifference between an airparcel and its surrounding environmen

The dynamics of many mesoscale phenomena are oftenmore intuitive if the vertical momentum equation is writtenin terms of a buoyancy force and a vertical perturbationpressure gradient force.

portrait of the emergence structure of the system.

hose which minimise dynamical dependence) characterise emergenc

epimorphism

in the context of the environment E

microscopic history adds nothing to the capacity of the macroscopic variable to self-predic

Widths of the earliest detectable low-level updrafts associated with sustained precipitating deep convection were ~3–5 km, larger than updrafts associated with surrounding boundary layer turbulence (~1–3 km wide)

close agreement with Fig. 1.11.

The rotational and divergent components of atmospheric circulation on tidally locked planets

We apply theHelmholtz decomposition to the horizontal velocity fields out-put from two well-studied general circulation mode

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a superrotating equatorial jet, planetary-scale station-ary waves, and thermally driven overturning circulatio

tidally locked planets

The two physical components of the rotational circulation in Fig. 2

Helmholtz decomposition of horizontal velocityufor the terrestrial simulation at 0.4 bar.

zonal-mean jet (red) and the eddy stationary waves (green

Divergent, overturning circulation (blue) rises at thesubstellar point

dividing the circulation of a terrestrial tidallylocked atmosphere into rotational and divergent componentscorresponds to a division into two physically meaningful circu-lations. The rotational circulation is primarily composed of thestationary Rossby waves forced by the divergent circulation andthe zonal-mean jet produced by the stationary part of the atmo-spheric circulation.

Rotation rateΩ(s−1)7.29×10−6

height and velocity fields at 0.4 bar

The energetics of this system describe exchanges among the divergent and the rotational energy components. The energy equations are as follows.

Boyle, James S. October 1996, 34 pp.  The 200 hPa kinetic energy is represented by means of the spherical harmonic components for the AMIP simulations, the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis and the ECMWF reanalysis(ERA). The data used are the monthly mean wind fields for 1979 to 1988. The kinetic energy is decomposed into the divergent (DKE) and rotational (RKE) components and emphasis is placed on examining the former.

Like Greg, I read a collection of rationality blogs—Marginal Revolution, Farnam Street, Interfluidity, Crooked Timber.

Why Is It So Hard to Be Rational?

Climate Laboratory

f the major premise is made sensible by making itprobabilistic, not absolute, the syllogism becomes for-mally incorrect and leads to a conclusion that is not sen-sible

Norbert Wiener, a child prodigy and a great mathematician, coined the term 'cybernetics' to characterize a very general science of 'control and communication in the animal and machine'. It brought together concepts from engineering, the study of the nervous system and statistical mechanics (e.g. entropy). From these he developed concepts that have become pervasive through science (especially biology and computing) and common parlance: 'in-formation', 'message', 'feedback' and 'control'. He wrote, 'the thought of every age is reflected in its technique . . . If the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries are the age of clocks, and the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries constitute the age of steam engines, the present time is the age of communication and control.'

moisture quasiequilibrium

where slow and shigh are respectively the saturated moist entropy averaged over the altitude ranges of 1–3 km and 5–7 km

where is threshold entropy, defined as the average of the saturated moist entropy in the 1.5–2 km layer, minus the boundary layer moist entropy sbl averaged over the 0–1 km layer

The instability index is defined

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Quirky Critters

Stop explaining black box machine learning models for high stakes decisions and use interpretable models instead

vertical motion

DYNAMO data and RAs

A peculiar feature in MERRA-2 is that its moisture analysis increment (estimated by budget residual) is positive and largest even though CWV anomalies are larger than those in the other RAs

ratio of anomalous OLR (a proxy of column longwave heating) to precipitation

The contribution of LW to MSE propagation in MERRA-2 and JRA-55 is relatively small, which is likely related to the relatively weak cloud–radiation feedback strength

the models used to create the modern RAs need additional MSE source to maintain MJO MSE anomalies

In MERRA-2 (JRA-55), horizontal MSE advection tends to dampen (amplify) MSE anomalies

Over the Indo-Pacific warm pool, the mean MSE is relatively high in MERRA-2 and ERA-I

LRP highlights the regionsof greater relevance for the ANN to predict the year by propagating an output sample back-ward through the frozen nodes of the ANN until it reaches the input layer

virtual sv(red broken), moist h

heavy rainfall in equatorial East Africa

Total precipitation

“reforecasts” of the weather, that is, retrospective forecasts spanning the period 2000-2019

Precipitable water (kg m​-2​, i.e., mm)

It is not currently possible to “un-flag” an annotation — if an annotation is flagged by mistake, the group creator can choose not to hide it.

The Matrix Cookbook

as-yet-undiscovered organizing principles might be at work at the mesoscopic scale, intermediate between atomic and macroscopic dimensions

a damaged species: associate professors. Long forgotten, these tenured professors find themselves burdened with extensive service and administrative tasks

absolute vorticity

background

Advζ, AdvT, and the Q term, respectively,

The total ω may be separated into a component explained by the QG ω equation (ωqg) and the remainder [ωaqg, calculated as a residual term in Eq. (2)]. A significant advantage of the QG ω equation is its linearity, and thus, we may directly decompose ωqg into components forced by the large-scale advective forcings and diabatic heating.

The QG ω equation may be written as

thermal efficiency of the atmospheric heat engine isless than 1%

there will alwaysremain some degree of uncertainty (or errors) inthe initial conditions and, due to the nonlinearityof atmospheric motions, these errors inevitablyamplify with time. Beyond some threshold forecastinterval the forecast fields are, on average, no morelike the observed fields against which they are veri-fied than two randomly chosen observed fields forthe same time of year are like one another. For theextratropical atmosphere this so-called limit ofdeterministic predictabilityis believed to be on theorder of 2 weeks

cross-isobar flow V is the one and onlysource term

It can be shownthat, in the integral over the entire mass of theatmosphere, the generation of kinetic energy by theV term in (7.42) is equal to the release ofpotential energy associated with the rising of warmair and sinking of cold air.

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Exercises

1 PVU106m2s1K kg1

Ertel’s19potential vorticity

LLCS consumes far too much boundary layer moisture

standard value used in our simulations is the “pure mixing time scale” of 3,600 s

the bottom row shows the second eigenvectors, V2

Hence, instead of truncating, we rotate β and γ back into θ,q on levels by forming the 2m component vector and the 2m × 2m matrix to interpret our results

the vast majority of output convective behavior can be described with relatively few eigenvectors. We typically retain two or three for discussion in the results sections and use 10 when the emulators are run online as part of the GCM

We predict Q from P rather than predicting Y from X because correlations between values of θ and q on different vertical levels that could cause large errors in our statistical analysis are avoided

Cases from the equally spaced group deemed nonconvecting (cpΔθtrop < 0.05 MJ m−2) are then discarded, as are an equal number of nonconvecting cases. This leaves an equal number of convecting and nonconvecting cases

The choice of 60,000 cases was made, as it is realistic to perform analysis on matrices of this size with available computing resources. It is found that using smaller sample sizes has little effect on accuracy

nonconvecting cases (defined as cpΔθtrop <0.05 MJ m−2, equivalent to a temperature change ΔTtrop  ≃ 10.1 K day−1,

the cases closest to 30,000 equally spaced values of cpΔθtrop from its minimum to its maximum value

A two‐step linear statistical emulator is used

we form a “case.”

The overall aim is not to replace conventional parameterization nor to improve GCM integration speed but to understand our parameterizations in the context of process knowledge and provide tools for parameterization development and interpretation of climate model projections.

The derived response matrices must also be put in the GCM in place of the original parameterization, as was done by Kelly et al. (2017) and Mapes et al. (2019)

thickness of the layer

Z

Cis referred to as the circulation

Exercises

spatial organization of tropical deep convection, can manifest itselfin two ways: through a decrease in the total area covered by convection and/or through a decrease in thenumber of convective areas