Estuarine Responses to Long‐Term Changes in Inlets, Morphology, and Sea Level Rise
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Abstract
Abstract Pamlico Sound, a large back‐barrier estuary in North Carolina, is under threat of climate change due to increased storm activity and sea level rise. The response of this system is investigated by considering what has already happened during changes in sea level over the late Holocene epoch. The hydrodynamic changes that occurred in response to geomorphic evolution are simulated using a 3‐D numerical model for four distinct “time‐slice” scenarios. To accomplish this, the present‐day bathymetry was obtained from a high‐resolution digital elevation model, and paleobathymetric grids were developed from sediment cores and seismic observations. Using the same hydrodynamic forcing for each geomorphic scenario, the models are compared to assess the combined response to: different inlets connecting the back‐barrier estuary to the ocean, changes in basin geomorphology due to sedimentation, and sea level rise. The results indicate that these factors have a considerable effect on hydrodynamics, waves, and salinity in the estuary. The time‐averaged tidal ranges were up to 3 times as high for the past environments in comparison with present‐day water level elevations, and maximum current velocities were over 3 times higher in regions close to paleo‐inlets. The simulations for each time slice suggest that the salinity distribution in Pamlico Sound is strongly influenced by the hydraulic connectivity with other estuaries and the number and size of tidal inlets through the barrier island system. The results indicate that changes to barrier systems induce strong, nonuniform, and complex responses in back‐barrier estuaries with regime shifts in hydrodynamic energy and water mass properties.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| 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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".