The Coastal Ocean
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Man's interface with the ocean begins at the coast. Just the mention of estuaries, harbors, bays, lagoons, open coastline, and shelf seas conjures up a myriad of processes and scales with complex interactions. It is at the coast where human influences are most concentrated – waste disposal, construction, transportation, agriculture, aquaculture, recreation, mineral and biological exploitation. Equally, it is at the coast that the ocean most impacts humans, dictating patterns of everyday life and long-term viability. Oceanic motion mediates all these interactions, at several scales: surface waves, tide, storm surge, seasonal, decadal and beyond. Our scope extends from land across the continental shelf to roughly the shelf break. The ocean dynamics change abruptly near the shelf break, as do many practical concerns including resource management, pollution, and navigation. This large, semienclosed region has come to be identified as the coastal ocean . Geographically the scope is approximately that of the Exclusive Economic Zone. The transport of matter within and through the coastal ocean is of paramount importance. The understanding of water motion and its simulation in the coastal ocean is quite advanced. Many modeling methods are in use today that will give a faithful representation of currents and sea level. The resolution possible is surprisingly high and continually improving. Model output in the form of hind casts and even forecasts is growing in availability as well. These trends are likely to continue. Simultaneously the geographic coverage of models is expanding under national and international guidance. It is the current fields from these models that are our starting point. We seek to use them, not produce them. Together with their companion fields (temperature, salinity, nutrients, turbulence) they constitute a sophisticated base from which to examine many important issues. The common starting point is to examine the tracks that simple particles follow. It is the connections among time, place, and a particle's past that make this such an important matter.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.280 | 0.160 |
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".