Ecosystem modelling across a salinity gradient from the North Sea to the Baltic Sea

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1696-1711

  Maar, Marie ^a   Møller, Eva Friis ^a   Larsen, Jesper ^b   Madsen, Kristine Skovgaard ^a   Wan, Zhenwen ^c   She, Jun ^c   Jonasson, Lars ^c   Neumann, Thomas ^d  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b Danish Maritime   (Denmark)

^c DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Coupled model; DMI BSHcmod; Ecosystem model; ERGOM; Light; North Sea; Silicate; Validation; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BALTIC SEA; COUPLED MODEL; DMI-BSHCMOD; ECOSYSTEM MODEL; ERGOM; NORTH SEA; VALIDATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ECOSYSTEMS; NUTRIENTS; OXYGEN; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SILICATES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CLIMATOLOGY; CORRELATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; GRAZING PRESSURE; PARAMETERIZATION; REGIONAL PATTERN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SILICATE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; NORTH SEA;

EID: 79954634262     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.03.006     Document Type: Article

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