A new 1500-year-long varve thickness record from Labrador, Canada, uncovers significant insights into large-scale climate variability in the Atlantic
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract. Grand Lake, located in Labrador, at the northeastern margin of North America, is a deep lacustrine basin that contains a well-preserved annual laminations record spanning the interval 493 to 2016 CE (1524 years). The chronology of this new varved sequence is established from layer counting of high-resolution images of thin sections. Radiometric dating (137Cs and 14C) validates the reliability of the varve chronology. Varve thickness is significantly correlated (r = 0.38) with the total precipitation recorded at the nearest weather station Goose A. The varve thickness series reveals high values during the 1050–1225 CE period, which corresponds to the Medieval Climate Anomaly, whereas the 15th–19th centuries, related to the Little Ice Age, shows low values. The teleconnections between several Goose A instrumental data series and some modes of climate variability such as the winter Greenland Blocking (negative North-Atlantic Oscillation) and the significant correlations between our varve thickness record and three other Northern Hemisphere high-resolution proxy records suggest that the Grand Lake record tracks North-Western Atlantic large-scale modes of hydroclimate variability over the past ∼ 1500 years.
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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 |
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| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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