Sensitivity of a marine coupled physical biogeochemical model to time resolution, integration scheme and time splitting method

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 52-53, Issue , 2012, Pages 36-53

  Butenschön, Momme ^a,d   Zavatarelli, Marco ^a   Vichi, Marcello ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical dynamics; Coupling; Ecosystem modelling; Hydrodynamics; Time scale; Time splitting

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL DYNAMICS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; COMBINED SYSTEM; COUPLING METHODS; COUPLING SCHEME; ECOLOGICAL STATE; ECOSYSTEM MODELLING; HYDRODYNAMIC COMPONENT; INTEGRATION SCHEME; NUMERICAL ERRORS; OPERATOR-SPLITTING; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; SPLITTING ERRORS; SPLITTING METHOD; TIME RESOLUTION; TIME SPLITTING; TIME-SCALES; TIME-SPLITTING METHODS; TRACER TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT MODELS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COUPLINGS; DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTEGRATION; TIME MEASUREMENT;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHOD; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

EID: 84861890097     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2012.04.008     Document Type: Article

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