Effects of mid-Holocene river runoff on the Arctic ocean/sea-ice system: a numerical model study
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Abstract
Recent geological studies have revealed that the freshwater input to the Arctic Ocean was highly variable during the Holocene. In the present study, the influence of mid-Holocene river runoff on large-scale Arctic ocean/sea-ice dynamics is examined using a general circulation model. A palaeohydrological forcing for the time interval around 6 ka BP (14C timescale) is constructed by compiling data from the available literature. Keeping all other forcing fields and bottom topography of the ocean model at present-day values, the effect of a changed freshwater input to the Arctic Ocean is isolated. The model shows that freshwater supply is vitally important for the polar oceanic circulation. In particular, a close connection between Siberian river runoff and the path of the Transpolar Drift (TPD) is found. Consistent with palaeoceanographic findings of driftwood delivery to the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Baffin Bay, the model results suggest that enhanced freshwater discharge during the mid-Holocene caused an eastward shift of the TPD with strengthened outflow through Fram Strait.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".