Hydrographic Variability in the Waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Scotian Shelf and the Eastern Gulf of Maine
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Abstract
This paper examines the hydrographic variability within the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Scotian Shelf and the eastern Gulf of Maine, including the Bay of Fundy, during the decade 1991–2000. Comparisons are made with previous decadal means to place the 1990s into a longer-term perspec-tive. The 1990s decadal means of the near-surface salinity were the lowest ever recorded for the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Scotian Shelf and the Bay of Fundy. These low salinities were advected into these regions from the Labrador and Newfoundland Shelves and led to record or near record high vertical stratification in the upper layers of the water column. Also during the 1990s, the decadal means of the temperature of the intermediate layer waters (approximately 30–150 m) were well below normal throughout the Gulf of St. Lawrence and over much of the Scotian Shelf. Similar low temperatures were first observed in the late 1980s and were mainly caused by advection from the Labrador and Newfoundland Shelves, although local atmospheric cooling also contributed. In the deep channels and basins of NAFO Subarea 4, near-bottom decadal mean temperatures were high and linked to the persistence of Warm Slope Water along the shelf break. A notable exception occurred in 1998 when Labrador Slope Water moved southward along the continental slope as far as the Mid-dle Atlantic Bight, pushing the Warm Slope Water offshore. This much colder water subsequently penetrated onto the Scotian Shelf and into the Gulf of Maine resulting in the coldest conditions in the deep basins since the 1960s.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 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".