Stabilising millennial oscillations in large-scale ocean circulation with a delayed feedback due to a circumpolar current

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dc.contributor.authorKeane, Andrewen
dc.contributor.authorPohl, Alexandreen
dc.contributor.authorDijkstra, Henk A.en
dc.contributor.authorRidgwell, Andyen
dc.contributor.funderRoyal Irish Academyen
dc.contributor.funderAgence Nationale de la Rechercheen
dc.contributor.funderLeverhulme Trusten
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Research Councilen
dc.contributor.funderNational Science Foundationen
dc.contributor.funderHeising-Simons Foundationen
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-06T10:26:35Z
dc.date.available2025-05-06T10:26:35Z
dc.date.issued2025-04-27en
dc.description.abstractThe global ocean circulation plays a pivotal role in the regulation of the Earth’s climate. The specific pattern and strength of circulation also determines how carbon and nutrients are cycled and via the resulting distribution of dissolved oxygen, where habitats suitable for marine animals occur. However, evidence from both geological data and models suggests that state transitions in circulation patterns have occurred in the past. Understanding the controls on marine environmental conditions and biodiversity requires a full appreciation of the nature and drivers of such transitions. Here we present stable millennial oscillations of meridional overturning circulation in an Earth system model of intermediate complexity, cGENIE, that appear to only occur in the presence of a circumpolar current. To demonstrate that a circumpolar current can act as a driver of stable oscillations, we adapt a simple ocean box model to include a delayed feedback to represent the effect of a circumpolar current on meridional overturning circulation. We investigate the millennial oscillatory solutions that arise in the box model by bifurcation analysis and show that the model can reproduce the same bifurcation structure observed in the Earth system model. Our results provide new insights into the nature of oscillations that could have occurred under certain continental configurations in the geological past, and also highlight the potential influence of the changing Antarctic circumpolar current speed on the stability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.en
dc.description.sponsorshipAgence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-22-CE01-0003; ANR-23-CE01-0003); Leverhulme Trust(RPG-2022-233); European Research Council (101055096); National Science Foundation (EAR-2121165); Royal Irish Academy (Charlemont grant)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.articleid134680en
dc.identifier.citationKeane, A., Pohl, A., Dijkstra, H. A. and Ridgwell, A. (2025) 'Stabilising millennial oscillations in large-scale ocean circulation with a delayed feedback due to a circumpolar current', Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 476, 134680 (11pp). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2025.134680en
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.physd.2025.134680en
dc.identifier.endpage11en
dc.identifier.issn0167-2789en
dc.identifier.journaltitlePhysica D: Nonlinear Phenomenaen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17392
dc.identifier.volume476en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevier Ltd.en
dc.relation.ispartofPhysica D: Nonlinear Phenomenaen
dc.rights© 2025, the Authors. Published by Elsevier B. V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectDelay dynamicsen
dc.subjectBifurcation analysisen
dc.subjectOcean circulationen
dc.subjectOscillationen
dc.titleStabilising millennial oscillations in large-scale ocean circulation with a delayed feedback due to a circumpolar currenten
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
dc.typejournal-articleen
oaire.citation.volume476en
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