Sensitivity analysis of simple global marine biogeochemical models

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Kriest, I ^a   Oschlies, A ^a   Khatiwala, S ^b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC PHOSPHORUS; EXPORT PRODUCTION; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL MARINES; GLOBAL OCEAN CIRCULATION MODEL; IRON-LIMITATION; LENGTH SCALE; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH PACIFIC; ORGANIC PHOSPHORUS; OXYGEN DISTRIBUTION; PARTICLE FLUXES; PHOSPHATE CONCENTRATION; POTENTIAL MODEL; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PRODUCTION PARAMETERS; REMINERALIZATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; STATE VARIABLES; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; EXPERIMENTS; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC PHOSPHORUS; GLOBAL OCEAN; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OXYGEN; PARTICLE MOTION; PHOSPHATE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REMINERALIZATION; SEDIMENT TRAP; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRACER; UPPER OCEAN; ZOOPLANKTON;

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

EID: 84861917542     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GB004072     Document Type: Article

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