Which process influences thermocline destabilization when increased freshwater runoff enters a subtropical gyre?

💡 Explanation

When freshwater runoff dilutes surface waters of a gyre, buoyancy increases because density decreases, suppressing convective overturning that normally mixes warm surface waters downward and cold deep waters upward. Therefore, suppressed convective overturning results, rather than Ekman transport, isopycnal mixing, or current shear, which require different forcing mechanisms.

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