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[Met Office](https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/learn-about/weather/types-of-weather/wind/foehn-effect)", "Test whether nocturnal surface cooling and local drainage explain the downslope wind better than foehn; downslope direction alone is insufficient. [Objective Forecasting of Foehn Winds](https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/wefo/23/2/2007waf2006021_1.xml)", "Separate warming along descending airflow from the temperature change at a fixed station; the onset temperature signal alone is not a universal classifier. [Community Foehn Classification Experiment](https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/99/11/bams-d-17-0200.1.xml)", "Treat windward rainfall and lee cloud clearance as supporting evidence rather than mandatory tests; foehn warming can involve several mechanisms. [Met Office](https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/learn-about/weather/types-of-weather/wind/foehn-effect)", "Test terrain-linked transformation against simple warm-air advection, and retain an uncertain classification when available observations cannot distinguish them." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Foehn identification", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "supported | probable | ambiguous | not supported, with named diagnostic method", "why_it_matters": "Makes the strength and basis of recognition explicit." }, { "name": "Barrier and receiving area", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked mountain barrier, crossing or pass, lee slope, valley and observation sites", "why_it_matters": "Anchors the interpretation to the terrain responsible for the flow." }, { "name": "Wind speed and gust", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "m/s, with sensor height, averaging period and gust duration", "why_it_matters": "Separates sustained exposure from short peaks." }, { "name": "Wind direction relative to terrain", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Degrees true, meteorological from-direction, with barrier orientation", "why_it_matters": "Tests consistency with cross-barrier descent and valley channeling." }, { "name": "Thermal contrast", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Air temperature in °C; temperature or potential-temperature difference in K, with baseline", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes local warming from elevation differences and background weather changes." }, { "name": "Moisture condition", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Relative humidity in %, specific humidity in g/kg and dew point in °C", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes reduced relative humidity through warming from reduced water-vapour content." }, { "name": "Cross-barrier pressure contrast", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "hPa, with station pair, subtraction order and elevation treatment", "why_it_matters": "Provides evidence about the pressure setting without making it a universal recognition threshold." }, { "name": "Airflow origin and descent", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Source region and altitude linked to lee receptor by observed or simulated airflow", "why_it_matters": "Connects the local wind to a plausible mountain-crossing history." }, { "name": "Surface penetration", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "aloft only | intermittent surface contact | sustained surface contact | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents conditions above a valley from being assigned automatically to its floor." }, { "name": "Episode timing and footprint", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "UTC onset and end intervals; duration in minutes or hours; horizontal boundary and vertical extent in m", "why_it_matters": "Defines where and when an episode applies, including boundary uncertainty." }, { "name": "Mechanism assessment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Candidate contributions: isentropic drawdown, precipitation-related heating, turbulent mixing, radiative contribution; supported | unresolved for each", "why_it_matters": "Allows multiple explanations without forcing an unsupported dominant mechanism." }, { "name": "Evidence coverage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed | inferred | forecast for each assessment, with timestamps, coverage and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Prevents simulated or stale conditions from being treated as current observations." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a candidate episode using a documented local diagnostic and record competing explanations.", "Compare upstream, crest and lee observations to test descent, warming and drying.", "Track surface breakthrough, retreat and the changing lee-side footprint.", "Request observations that resolve uncertainty about airflow origin or valley penetration.", "Supply time-bounded wind, temperature and humidity conditions to linked fire, snow and operational models.", "Evaluate configured exposure thresholds and prepare an advisory or authorized operational response." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "ams-glossary-foehn", "title": "Foehn (föhn)", "url": "https://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Foehn", "what_it_supports": "Specialist definition, adiabatic mechanism, and distinction from generic downslope winds.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikidata-q184766", "title": "Föhn (Q184766)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q184766", "what_it_supports": "Canonical identifier and aliases (foehn, föhn, chinook as related).", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "foehn-recognition", "name": "Foehn recognition", "description": "Establish whether a candidate wind episode warrants a foehn interpretation.", "rationale": "Warmth, dryness and downslope wind can occur separately; recognition needs a coherent explanation.", "layers": [ { "id": "terrain-linked-descent", "name": "Terrain-linked descent", "description": "Connect the receiving location to a mountain crossing and descending airflow.", "findings": [ { "id": "barrier-to-lee-connection", "name": "Barrier-to-lee connection", "description": "Record the barrier, candidate crossing route and evidence connecting descending air to the lee observation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which mountain barrier and lee receiving area define this candidate episode?", "kind": "definition", "id": "barrier-to-lee-connection-q01" }, { "text": "Which observations or trajectory results support a descending connection between them?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "barrier-to-lee-connection-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "competing-wind-explanations", "name": "Competing wind explanations", "description": "Test the foehn interpretation against other causes of similar station conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-discrimination", "name": "Diagnostic discrimination", "description": "Record the applied diagnostic, its local validity and evidence for drainage flow, warm advection or mixed conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence distinguishes this episode from radiatively driven drainage or warm-air advection?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "diagnostic-discrimination-q01" }, { "text": "Which locally evaluated recognition method is being used, and what evidence would leave the classification ambiguous?", "kind": "definition", "id": "diagnostic-discrimination-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "air-mass-transformation", "name": "Air-mass transformation", "description": "Describe how the descending airflow's thermal and moisture properties differ from defensible reference conditions.", "rationale": "The model must distinguish measured contrasts from explanations of how those contrasts arose.", "layers": [ { "id": "warming-and-drying-evidence", "name": "Warming and drying evidence", "description": "Make thermal and moisture comparisons interpretable across elevations and times.", "findings": [ { "id": "comparable-thermodynamic-observations", "name": "Comparable thermodynamic observations", "description": "Record temperature, potential temperature where appropriate, and moisture contrasts with their reference sites, levels and times.", "questions": [ { "text": "Relative to which upstream air, elevation-adjusted reference or pre-onset interval is warming assessed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparable-thermodynamic-observations-q01" }, { "text": "Does the humidity change represent lower relative humidity, lower specific humidity, or both?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparable-thermodynamic-observations-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "transformation-mechanisms", "name": "Transformation mechanisms", "description": "Assess possible contributions without assuming a single textbook pathway.", "findings": [ { "id": "mechanism-evidence", "name": "Mechanism evidence", "description": "Record evidence for drawdown, precipitation-related heating, mixing and radiative contributions; several mechanisms may contribute. [Met Office](https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/learn-about/weather/types-of-weather/wind/foehn-effect)", "questions": [ { "text": "What source-altitude, precipitation, cloud or turbulence evidence supports each proposed contribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "mechanism-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Can the contributions be distinguished with available evidence, or must their relative importance remain unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "mechanism-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "mountain-flow-configuration", "name": "Mountain flow configuration", "description": "Represent the upstream forcing and vertical arrangement that condition lee-side flow.", "rationale": "A lee station alone cannot establish the depth, origin or surface reach of the candidate foehn.", "layers": [ { "id": "cross-barrier-setting", "name": "Cross-barrier setting", "description": "Characterise upstream wind, stratification and pressure contrasts relevant to the crossing.", "findings": [ { "id": "crossing-support", "name": "Crossing support", "description": "Record measured or forecast profiles and pressure differences, including whether their spatial resolution resolves the relevant barrier or pass.", "questions": [ { "text": "What do upstream and crest wind and stability profiles indicate about the air able to cross the barrier?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "crossing-support-q01" }, { "text": "How was the cross-barrier pressure difference calculated, and are elevation effects treated consistently?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "crossing-support-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "valley-surface-coupling", "name": "Valley surface coupling", "description": "Distinguish descending air above a valley from foehn reaching exposed surface locations.", "findings": [ { "id": "cold-pool-and-penetration", "name": "Cold pool and penetration", "description": "Record the vertical relationship between candidate foehn, any valley cold pool and surface observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "At what heights and sites is foehn supported, and which valley-floor sites remain outside it?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "cold-pool-and-penetration-q01" }, { "text": "Which profile or station changes support intermittent or sustained surface breakthrough?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "cold-pool-and-penetration-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "episode-evolution", "name": "Episode evolution", "description": "Track the changing duration, footprint and intensity of a foehn episode.", "rationale": "A regional episode can produce different onset times and exposure intervals at neighbouring sites.", "layers": [ { "id": "onset-interruption-and-end", "name": "Onset, interruption and end", "description": "Define episode boundaries using an explicit temporal rule.", "findings": [ { "id": "episode-continuity", "name": "Episode continuity", "description": "Record local onset and cessation intervals, temporary interruptions and the rule used to group them into one episode.", "questions": [ { "text": "What persistence and gap rules distinguish an onset, a temporary interruption and a new episode?", "kind": "definition", "id": "episode-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "Which observations bracket onset and cessation, and how wide are the timing uncertainties?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "episode-continuity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "lee-footprint-and-intensity", "name": "Lee footprint and intensity", "description": "Resolve where the wind reaches and how strongly it affects each observed area.", "findings": [ { "id": "local-exposure-envelope", "name": "Local exposure envelope", "description": "Record the evolving surface footprint, vertical reach, sustained winds and gusts without extrapolating a single exposed station across the valley.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which areas have direct evidence of foehn, which are inferred, and where is the boundary unconstrained?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "local-exposure-envelope-q01" }, { "text": "What sustained winds and gusts occur at each relevant height and averaging interval?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "local-exposure-envelope-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "foehn-exposure-decisions", "name": "Foehn exposure decisions", "description": "Translate the episode assessment into bounded inputs and actions for affected activities.", "rationale": "Recognition alone does not determine consequences; decisions require local conditions, exposure and explicit operating criteria.", "layers": [ { "id": "hazard-model-handoffs", "name": "Hazard model handoffs", "description": "Connect the foehn assessment to models that own consequences such as fire behaviour, snow change or aviation exposure.", "findings": [ { "id": "atmospheric-input-package", "name": "Atmospheric input package", "description": "Provide located and time-bounded wind, temperature and moisture evidence, keeping inferred impacts distinct from measured atmospheric conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which linked exposure model needs the episode's winds, drying, warming or evidence of turbulence?", "kind": "action", "id": "atmospheric-input-package-q01" }, { "text": "Which additional fuel, snowpack, asset or operating conditions must that model establish before inferring consequences?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "atmospheric-input-package-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "decision-and-reassessment", "name": "Decision and reassessment", "description": "Apply explicit local criteria and determine when a foehn-based decision needs review.", "findings": [ { "id": "threshold-and-evidence-gate", "name": "Threshold and evidence gate", "description": "Record the applicable exposure threshold, forecast validity, evidence sufficiency and authority for any proposed response.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which configured threshold is met, at what location and time, and what response is authorized?", "kind": "action", "id": "threshold-and-evidence-gate-q01" }, { "text": "What new observation, forecast expiry or change in surface penetration requires reassessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "threshold-and-evidence-gate-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "classical föhn (moisture-stripped windward ascent, condensation/precipitation, then dry adiabatic descent on the lee)", "anticyclonic or inversion föhn (subsiding air drawn from above a lee inversion, with little or no windward precipitation)", "shallow föhn (cold-air-pool drainage through gaps and saddles, often without a deep cross-barrier flow)", "deep föhn (cross-barrier flow that scours the lee cold pool and reaches the valley floor)", "south föhn / north föhn (Alpine directional types: southerly föhn into the northern Alps, northerly föhn into the southern Alps)", "chinook (Rocky Mountain lee föhn, often with a chinook arch)", "berg wind (South African plateau-to-coast föhn-type downslope wind)", "zonda (Andean lee föhn on the Argentine side)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of foehn wind this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; 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each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Operational forecasting in the Alps, Rockies, Andes, New Zealand, and other ranges as a local wind that can raise lee temperatures by 10-20 °C in hours.", "Wildfire and avalanche management: dry, gusty lee winds raise fire danger and can load or trigger snow slopes.", "Agriculture and viticulture: sudden warming and drying on lee slopes (e.g. Alpine föhn, Argentine zonda).", "Aviation: mountain-wave rotor and severe turbulence on the lee of the barrier.", "Public health and infrastructure: föhn-related heat, dust, and wind damage to roofs, trees, and power lines; historically linked (weakly) to föhnkrankheit complaints." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of foehn wind this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "temperature rise at a lee station during onset", "typical_range": "5-20 (extreme cases >25)", "unit": "°C" }, { "quantity": "relative humidity on the lee during established föhn", "typical_range": "10-40", "unit": "%" }, { "quantity": "gust speed in valleys and at crest", "typical_range": "15-40 typical; damaging gusts 40-70+", "unit": "m s⁻¹" }, { "quantity": "potential-temperature contrast across the barrier (windward vs lee)", "typical_range": "5-15", "unit": "K" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of foehn wind this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Rapid wildfire spread and extreme fire weather on the dry lee.", "Severe clear-air and rotor turbulence, including aviation accidents in mountain waves.", "Structural wind damage, fallen trees, and power outages from föhn storms.", "Snowmelt floods and ice-fall / avalanche risk from sudden warming.", "Dust, reduced visibility, and respiratory irritation (e.g. zonda, berg wind).", "Human thermal stress from abrupt warming, especially in winter chinook/föhn events." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of foehn wind this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Alps: föhn/föhnwind; south föhn vs north föhn is the operational distinction in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and northern Italy.", "North America: chinook on the east slopes of the Rockies; Santa Ana and sundowner on Southern California ranges are föhn-like but often more katabatic/gap-driven.", "South America: zonda in western Argentina; puelche in Chile.", "New Zealand: Canterbury northwester / nor'wester as a föhn across the Southern Alps.", "South Africa: berg wind off the plateau toward the coast.", "Adriatic/Dinaric: bora is a cold downslope/gap wind and is not a föhn, despite similar orography." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of foehn wind this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; 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Separate by temperature change at onset: föhn warms, bora cools or stays cold." }, { "name": "katabatic wind (drainage of radiatively cooled slope air)", "difference": "Katabatic flow is nocturnal, shallow, and cold; föhn is typically synoptically forced, deeper, and warm. Separate by diurnal timing, inversion depth, and temperature anomaly relative to the free atmosphere." }, { "name": "mountain wave / hydraulic-jump windstorm without föhn warming", "difference": "Strong lee winds can occur with little warming if the descending air is not potentially warmer than the valley air. Separate by potential-temperature increase and humidity drop at the surface, not by wind speed alone." }, { "name": "sea breeze or valley wind", "difference": "Thermally driven diurnal circulations reverse with the sun and do not require a cross-barrier synoptic flow or a dry-adiabatic lee signature." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of foehn wind this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which recognition criteria have been validated for each intended mountain region, including weak episodes and cases without a station temperature rise?", "What minimum observation network can distinguish foehn aloft, surface breakthrough and local drainage in the target terrain?", "Which thermal and moisture baselines best separate descent-related transformation from elevation, diurnal change and background advection?", "What evidence is sufficient to attribute individual warming mechanisms, and when should the model retain only an unresolved combined explanation?", "Which locally supported persistence rules, forecast skill limits and exposure thresholds should govern episode grouping and operational responses?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. 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What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "Nor'west arch", "Taos", "Santa Ana winds", "Alpine föhn", "Helm Wind", "Suetes", "Virazon" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 62 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 7 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one foehn wind from another, and a foehn wind from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a foehn wind, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a foehn wind, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a foehn wind is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a foehn wind, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a foehn wind, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a foehn wind is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a foehn wind sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a foehn wind, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a foehn wind, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a foehn wind is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a foehn wind from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a foehn wind, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a foehn wind, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a foehn wind is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a foehn wind passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a foehn wind between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a foehn wind, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a foehn wind, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a foehn wind is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a foehn wind, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a foehn wind is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a foehn wind, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a foehn wind, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a foehn wind is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a foehn wind proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a foehn wind, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a foehn wind and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a foehn wind, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a foehn wind, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a foehn wind is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a foehn wind consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a foehn wind takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a foehn wind, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a foehn wind, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a foehn wind is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What foehn wind is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of foehn wind are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is foehn wind operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of foehn wind and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of foehn wind?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as foehn wind?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a foehn wind came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a foehn wind and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a foehn wind, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a foehn wind, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a foehn wind is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a foehn wind is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a foehn wind, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a foehn wind, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a foehn wind is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }