Ozone in the boreal forest in the Alberta oil sands region
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract. Measurements of ozone were made using an instrumented tower and a tethersonde located in a forested region surrounded by oil sands production facilities in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR). Our observations and modelling show that the concentration of ozone was modified by vertical mixing, photochemical reactions, and surface deposition. Measurements on the tower demonstrated that when winds are from the direction of anthropogenic emissions from oil sand extraction and processing facilities, the ozone mixing ratio in the forest is as much as 10 ppb lower than when winds are from the direction of undisturbed forest. This finding is supported by previous studies which suggest that surplus NOx from oil sands emissions results in ambient ozone titration. Gradients of ozone mixing ratio with height were observed using instruments on a tethered balloon (up to a height of 300 m) as well as a pulley system and 2-point gradients within the canopy. Strong gradients (ozone increasing with height between 0.2 and 0.4 ppb m-1) were measured in the canopy overnight, while daytime gradients were weaker and highly variable. A 1D canopy model was used to simulate the afternoon in-canopy gradient with reduced mixing overnight (suggesting high stability within the canopy), and an ozone deposition velocity of 0.2 cm s-1. Sensitivity simulations using the model suggest the local NO concentration profile and coefficients of vertical diffusivity have a significant influence on the O3 concentrations and profiles in the region.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 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.
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".