Isotopic Evidence for the Evolution of Subsurface Nitrate in the Western Equatorial Pacific
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Abstract
Abstract Subsurface waters from both hemispheres converge in the Western Equatorial Pacific (WEP), some of which form the Equatorial Undercurrent (EUC) that influences equatorial Pacific productivity across the basin. Measurements of nitrogen (N) and oxygen (O) isotope ratios in nitrate (δ 15 N NO3 and δ 18 O NO3 ), the isotope ratios of dissolved inorganic carbon (δ 13 C DIC ), and complementary biogeochemical tracers reveal that northern and southern WEP waters have distinct biogeochemical histories. Organic matter remineralization plays an important role in setting the nutrient characteristics on both sides of the WEP. However, remineralization in the northern WEP contributes a larger concentration of the nutrients, consistent with the older “age” of northern thermocline‐depth and intermediate‐depth waters. Remineralization introduces a relatively low δ 15 N NO3 to northern waters, suggesting the production of sinking organic matter by N 2 fixation at the surface—consistent with the notion that N 2 fixation is quantitatively important in the North Pacific. In contrast, remineralization contributes elevated δ 15 N NO3 to the southern WEP thermocline, which we hypothesize to derive from the vertical flux of high‐δ 15 N material at the southern edge of the equatorial upwelling. This signal potentially masks any imprint of N 2 fixation from South Pacific waters. The observations further suggest that the intrusion of high δ 15 N NO3 and δ 18 O NO3 waters from the eastern margins is more prominent in the northern than southern WEP. Together, these north‐south differences enable the examination of the hemispheric inputs to the EUC, which appear to derive predominantly from southern hemisphere waters.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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.
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