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Record W4417462265 · doi:10.5194/esd-16-2273-2025

The effect of noise on the stability of convection in a conceptual model of the North Atlantic subpolar gyre

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Bibliographic record

VenueEarth System Dynamics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicOceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersHORIZON EUROPE Climate, Energy and MobilityNederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
KeywordsOcean gyreConvectionForcing (mathematics)Thermohaline circulationDeep convectionFree convective layerConvection cellOcean current

Abstract

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Abstract. The North Atlantic subpolar gyre (SPG) plays a fundamental role in the Atlantic ocean circulation by providing an important connection between the subtropical Atlantic and the Arctic. It is driven by both wind and density differences that are, in part, caused by convection in the Labrador Sea. Through this deep convection site, the SPG is also linked to the AMOC. There is considerable evidence that this area of convection may diminish or shift in a changing climate. For this reason, the convection in the SPG is considered a tipping point. Here, we extensively study a conceptual model of the SPG to characterize the stability of convection in the gyre. The bifurcation structure of this model is analyzed in order to identify bistable parameter regions. For a range of gyre salinity and freshwater forcing levels the gyre is found to have both convective and non-convective states. Furthermore, noise-induced transitions between convective and non-convective states are possible for a wide range of parameter values. Convection in the SPG becomes increasingly unstable as the gyre salinity decreases and the freshwater forcing increases. However, convection never fully stops and can always restart after a period of no convection. This indicates that, at least in this conceptual model, a collapse of convection in the SPG does not have to be permanent.

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Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.546
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
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

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Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.175
Teacher spread0.170 · 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