Pith Number

pith:VN6JTGYO

pith:2016:VN6JTGYON246HVNAJ5WJFBOI4S

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Weakening and Shifting of the Saharan Shallow Meridional Circulation During Wet Years of the West African Monsoon

Ravi Shekhar, William R. Boos

arxiv:1609.08515 v2 · 2016-09-27 · physics.ao-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VN6JTGYON246HVNAJ5WJFBOI4S}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:33:22.863722Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab7c999b0e6eb9e3d5a04f6c9285c8e48cd03945983d1b3cbde312fdf0d21ff5

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.08515 · arxiv_version: 1609.08515v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.08515 · pith_short_12: VN6JTGYON246 · pith_short_16: VN6JTGYON246HVNA · pith_short_8: VN6JTGYO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VN6JTGYON246HVNAJ5WJFBOI4S \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: ab7c999b0e6eb9e3d5a04f6c9285c8e48cd03945983d1b3cbde312fdf0d21ff5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4ab0bdd0cdcba67922ddfdaf017a6f03f3589039c14d27fcd0307bef77c82755",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ao-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-27T16:05:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7c9b4bc54db197c8f6ba2060c5586a0489c651c4895786a4b3652ea61ebcfc6c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.08515",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}