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Record W4407590185 · doi:10.1101/2025.02.13.638097

From Archaea to the atmosphere: remotely sensing Arctic methane

2025· preprint· en· W4407590185 on OpenAlexaff
R. K. Varner, Dylan Cronin, Patrick Crill, Michael Palace, C. K. McCalley, Jia Deng, Christina Herrick, McKenzie A. Kuhn, Suzanne B. Hodgkins, K. J. McArthur, J. Singer, Benjamin Bolduc, Yueh-Fen Li, Changsheng Li, Gene W. Tyson, Steve Frolking, Jeffrey P. Chanton, Andreas Persson, S. R. Saleska

Bibliographic record

VenuebioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicAtmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAtmosphere (unit)MethaneArchaeaArcticEnvironmental scienceThe arcticAstrobiologyAtmospheric methaneRemote sensingMethane emissionsEarth scienceAtmospheric sciencesMeteorologyGeologyOceanographyGeographyEcologyPhysicsPaleontologyBiology

Abstract

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Abstract Global atmospheric methane concentrations are rapidly rising and becoming isotopically more depleted, implying an unresolved microbial contribution. Rising Arctic temperatures are variably altering soil methane cycling, causing consequential uncertainty in the atmospheric methane budget. We demonstrated in an Arctic wetland that below-ground microbiota and methane-cycling features parallelled above-ground plant communities. To upscale emissions, we applied machine learning to remote sensing data to identify habitats, which were assigned average emissions. To upscale dynamically, we incorporated climate data, remotely-sensed water table variation, and habitat classes into a temporally-resolved biogeochemical model, to predict methane flux and isotope dynamics. This accurately estimated more depleted 13C-methane than previously used for Arctic habitats in global source partitioning. Remote-sensing of these rapidly changing inaccessible landscapes can thus help constrain the role of the Arctic in ongoing changes in global methane emissions.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score0.034

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.203
Teacher spread0.194 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Citations2
Published2025
Admission routes1
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