Calibration and validation of a one-dimensional complex marine biogeochemical flux model in different areas of the northern Adriatic shelf

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 21, Issue 1 PART 2, 2003, Pages 413-436

  Vichi, M ^a,b   Oddo, P ^a   Zavatarelli, M ^c   Coluccelli, A ^c   Coppini, G ^c   Celio, M ^d   Fonda Umani, S ^d   Pinardi, N ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d Laboratorio di Biologia Marina   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biochemistry and food chains; Biological and chemical; Continental shelf processes; General; Numerical modelling; Oceanography

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CALIBRATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODEL VALIDATION;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0038456212     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-21-413-2003     Document Type: Article

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