Resilience of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

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Autori principali: Jacques-Dumas, Valérian, Dijkstra, Henk A., Kuehn, Christian
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author Jacques-Dumas, Valérian
Dijkstra, Henk A.
Kuehn, Christian
author_facet Jacques-Dumas, Valérian
Dijkstra, Henk A.
Kuehn, Christian
contents We address the issue of resilience of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) given the many indications that this dynamical system is in a multi-stable regime. A novel approach to resilience based on rare event techniques is presented which leads to a measure capturing `resistance to change` and `ability to return' aspects in a probabilistic way. The application of this measure to a conceptual model demonstrates its suitability for assessing AMOC resilience but also shows its potential use in many other non-autonomous dynamical systems. This framework is then extended to compute the probability that the AMOC undergoes a transition conditioned on an external forcing. Such conditional probability can be estimated by exploiting the information available when computing the resilience of this system. This allows us to provide a probabilistic view on safe operating spaces by defining a conditional safe operating space as a subset of the parameter space of the (possibly transient) imposed forcing.
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spellingShingle Resilience of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
Jacques-Dumas, Valérian
Dijkstra, Henk A.
Kuehn, Christian
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Dynamical Systems
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Fluid Dynamics
We address the issue of resilience of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) given the many indications that this dynamical system is in a multi-stable regime. A novel approach to resilience based on rare event techniques is presented which leads to a measure capturing `resistance to change` and `ability to return' aspects in a probabilistic way. The application of this measure to a conceptual model demonstrates its suitability for assessing AMOC resilience but also shows its potential use in many other non-autonomous dynamical systems. This framework is then extended to compute the probability that the AMOC undergoes a transition conditioned on an external forcing. Such conditional probability can be estimated by exploiting the information available when computing the resilience of this system. This allows us to provide a probabilistic view on safe operating spaces by defining a conditional safe operating space as a subset of the parameter space of the (possibly transient) imposed forcing.
title Resilience of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
topic Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Dynamical Systems
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.04740