Bioclimatic indices in the north-eastern part of the Labrador Peninsula in the second half of the 18th century
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Abstract
The oldest meteorological data for the north-eastern coast of the Labrador Peninsula date to the second half of the 18th century. Weather observations were conducted by the Moravian Church who settled here in 1771 to establish the first Christian mission in a settlement called Nain.Within the next few years, two more settlements were established: Okak (formerly “Okkak”) and Hopedale (formerly “Hoffenthal”). While conducting their mission, the Moravian Church engaged in, among other things, making meteorological observations of such elements as air temperature (°F), wind speed (on a scale 0–6) and wind direction (on an eight-direction compass rose). Each measurement was performed four times a day (8:00, 12:00, 16:00 and 20:00 local time).Based on publicly available materials, three series of data were developed – one for each station. Meteorological observations at Nain were made for the period Sep 1776 – Jul 1786. During this time, there was one gap in the measurements from 12 to 30 Sep 1784. At Okak, observations were made without interruption for the period 16 Oct 1776 – 31 Aug 1786. At Hopedale, observations were made from 1 Oct 1782 to 16 Aug 1786. This series is less complete because it has occasional gaps in observations (from one observation per day to 3 days), as well as one longer gap extending from 01 Aug 1784 to 31 Aug 1785.All available historical data were quality checked and corrected. Air temperature was converted to degrees Celsius. Wind speeds given on a scale of 0-6 were converted to m∙s-1 using the Beaufort scale.Three indices were used to assess bioclimatic conditions – Wind Chill Temperature (WCI), Wind Chill Index (WCI) and Insulation Predicted (Iclp). For this purpose, the Bioklima program was used (www.igipz.pan.pl/geoekoklimat/blaz/BioKlima.htm). Before calculating the indices, the wind speed was reduced to a height of 1.2 m above ground level, which corresponds to the average human chest height.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 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) | 0.001 | 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".