Special Interregional Report Hurricane <i>isabel</i> of 2003
Bibliographic record
Abstract
cane increased, it maintained a Category 2 status (85-90-knot maximum winds) for the next two days.With its eye gradually filling, Isabel made landfall near Drum lnlet, North Carolina around 1:00 p.m. 18 September as a Category 2 hurricane (Figure 1), then weakened slowly as it moved across eastern North Carolina.It weakened to a tropical storm over central Virginia and lost tropical characteristics as it moved across western Pennsylvania on 19 September.Isabel brought tropical-storm conditions to a large area from central North Carolina northward to the eastern Great Lakes and western New England.Extratropical Isabel moved northward into Canada and was absorbed into a larger baroclinic system moving eastward across south-central Canada early on 20 September.The many bird sightings listed in this Special Report must surely relate to the size and strength of Isabel, which was only the fifth hurricane in recorded history to sustain Category 5 intensity for 30 hours.Both the Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters and the NOAA Hurricane Hunters flew missions into the storm and measured the strongest wind ever observed in an Ariantic hurricane: 203 knots (or 234 m.p.h.) at 4500 feet on the afternoon of 13 September.The lowest pressure observed by reconnaissance aircraft was 920 mb 12 September.More than for any hurricane in the past, birders in the storms path were prepared, both for the damage to property and infrastructure (the storm track was very well predicted almost a week in advance) and for the inevitable fallout of seabirds and shorebirds that occurs with landfalling Atlantic tropical cyclones.Those birders who were able to venture out safely--and many in North Carolina and Virginia had no such opportunity-discovered thousands of displaced birds, including pelagic seabirds.Many of these were commendably well documented with photographs, field sketches, and notes, and a few specimens were obtained as well.Notably, storm-petrds were studied in the interior, from North Carolina to Ontario, and for the first time in many areas, at least some storm-petrels were convincingly identified to species, with the rarest of the brown species inland--Wilson's Storm-Petrel identified in interior North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario.One probable Wilson's Storm-Petrel was even noted 20
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 teacher head, 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".