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Record W7160930197 · doi:10.1121/10.0040830

Fluctuations in bottom backscatter in the Strait of Georgia

2025· article· en· W7160930197 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Nicholas P. Chotiros

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicUnderwater Acoustics Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBackscatter (email)SalinitySonarCorrelation coefficientTemperature salinity diagramsBottom waterHydrostatic equilibriumSeabed

Abstract

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Using data recorded and made available by Network Canada, the fluctuations in the bottom high-frequency acoustic backscatter from a node in the Strait of Georgia was observed over a period of 11 days, along with other environmental factors, including hydrostatic pressure, temperature, and salinity. The bottom backscatter was observed using an Imaginex rotating sonar operating at a frequency of 1 MHz. The likely original purpose of the instrument was to observe bottom sediment pulses driven by tidal currents, but correlation between other environmental parameters and bottom backscatter are also evident. Due to the relatively shallow depth of 41 m, there should be sufficient sun light penetration for photosynthesis, which affects backscatter due to bubble generation by microorganisms in the sediment, as reported by Holliday et al. [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 2003, 114, 2317]. Indeed, a small sun light correlation coefficient was found, with a periodicity of 1 day. Larger correlation coefficients were found with salinity and temperature variations, with longer periodicities. The temperature and salinity of the water were correlated, suggestive of the movement of two distinct bodies of water, in the manner of SPICE. [Work supported by the US Navy’s Office of Naval Research, Code 322OA, grant N00014-23-1-2522.]

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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: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.426
Threshold uncertainty score0.857

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.015
GPT teacher head0.270
Teacher spread0.255 · 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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