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Record W2038635556 · doi:10.5194/tcd-6-737-2012

Significant total mass contained in small glaciers

2012· preprint· en· W2038635556 on OpenAlexfundno aff
David B. Bahr, Valentina Radić

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicCryospheric studies and observations
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsGlacierPhysical geographyGeologyCurrent (fluid)ClimatologyVolume (thermodynamics)Ice capsSea levelEnvironmental scienceGeographyOceanographyPhysics

Abstract

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Abstract. A single large glacier can contain hundreds of millions of times the mass of a small glacier. Nevertheless, small glaciers are so numerous that their contribution to the world's total ice volume is significant and may be a notable source of error if excluded. With current glacier inventories, total volume errors on the order of 10 % are possible at both global and regional scales. However, errors of less than 1 % require glaciers that are smaller than those available in some inventories. Such accuracy requires a global list of all glaciers and ice caps (GIC) as small as 1 km2, and for regional estimates requires substantially smaller sizes. For some regions, volume errors of less than 5 % require a complete list of all glaciers down to the smallest conceivable sizes. For this reason, sea-level rise estimates and other total mass and total volume analyses cannot ignore the world's smallest glaciers without careful justification.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.016

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

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 head0.038
GPT teacher head0.219
Teacher spread0.180 · 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 designObservational
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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Published2012
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