Ecosystem behavior at Bermuda Station [open quotes]S[close quotes] and ocean weather station [open quotes]India[close quotes]: A general circulation model and observational analysis
- Natural Environment Research Council, Southampton (United Kingdom)
- Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
- Univ. of Maryland Center for Environmental and Estuarine Sciences, Cambridge, MD (United States)
- Plymouth Marine Lab. (United Kingdom)
One important theme of modern biological oceanography has been the attempt to develop models of how the marine ecosystem responds to variations in the physical forcing functions such as solar radiation and the wind field. The authors have addressed the problem by embedding simple ecosystem models into a seasonally forced three-dimensional general circulation model of the North Atlantic ocean. In this paper first, some of the underlying biological assumptions of the ecosystem model are presented, followed by an analysis of how well the model predicts the seasonal cycle of the biological variables at Bermuda Station s' and Ocean Weather Station India. The model gives a good overall fit to the observations but does not faithfully model the whole seasonal ecosystem model. 57 refs., 25 figs., 5 tabs.
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-90ER61053
- OSTI ID:
- 7226195
- Journal Information:
- Global Biogeochemical Cycles; (United States), Vol. 7:2; ISSN 0886-6236
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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