Comparison of the emergent behavior of a complex ecosystem model in two ocean general circulation models

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 84, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 204-224

  Sinha, Bablu ^a   Buitenhuis, Erik T ^b,c   Quéré, Corinne Le ^b,c   Anderson, Thomas R ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEAN; ATMOSPHERIC DUST; BULK PROPERTIES; COCCOLITHOPHORES; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; DIATOM PRODUCTION; DOWN-WELLING; ECOSYSTEM MODEL; EMERGENT BEHAVIORS; FUNCTIONAL TYPES; GLOBAL OCEAN; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MESOZOOPLANKTON; MICROZOOPLANKTONS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH PACIFIC; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEAN PHYSICS; OCEAN SURFACES; PARAMETER VALUES; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; PHYSICAL MODEL; PHYSICO-CHEMICALS; PHYTOPLANKTON BIOMASS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SOUTHERN OCEAN; STRONG-MIXING; SURFACE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

ALGAE CONTROL; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DUST; MODELS; NUTRIENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; TROPICS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CALCAREOUS ALGA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIATOM; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; PLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 77949300250     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

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