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Re:Warning of forthcoming collapse of Atlantic meridional ov... by braaannigan on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @01:29PM (#36866040)
Many of the physical models are of similar complexity to the model in this paper - the sort of analytical model that you run in a few minutes on your laptop, not on a super-computer. It's not a question of complexity it's about whether a statistical model that is not constrained by well-understood constraints is a high-value model
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Re:Warning of forthcoming collapse of Atlantic meridional ov... by sieste on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @01:38PM (#36866199)
Agreed. Also I'm not here to defend their particular model. Just saying that "physical" does not always equal "better predictions".

Their model equation (1) has 4 parameters. Do you have any papers at hand that model AMOC in a more physically constrained way, with a similar number of tunable parameters?

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