Transactions of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Jun 2018)
Coupling general ocean circulation models with the BFM marine ecosystem model
Abstract
The coupling of numerical geophysical models of a sea with marine ecosystem models is considered. For the latter, BFM was chosen and coupled with three Russian models for three seas of different spatial scales: the White Sea (JASMINE), the Arctic Ocean (FEMAO), and the global ocean as a part of the Earth system (INMCM). We describe technical details of implementation and discuss important questions of the computing efficiency and sensitivity of the model to the sea-ice subsystem and boundary values. The ecology model can simultaneously embrace pelagic, benthic, and sympagic ecosystems.
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