Naval Research Laboratory Ecological -- Photochemical -- Bio-optical--Numerical Experiment (Neptune) Version 1: A Portable, Flexible Modeling Environment Designed to Resolve Time-dependent Feedbacks Between Upper Ocean Ecology, Photochemistry, and Optics

A modeling system has been constructed that combines ecological element cycling, photochemical processes, and bio-optical processes into a single simulation that may be coupled to hydrodynamic models that provide temperature fields as well as the advection/diffusion of state variables. The model is...

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Main Authors Jolliff, Jason K, Kindle, John C
Format Publication
LanguageEnglish
Published 06.04.2007
Subjects
DIFFUSION
ECOLOGY
EQUIPMENT AND METEORS
ESTERS
HYDRODYNAMICS
MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
MODULAR OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM
NITROGEN
OCEAN MODELS
OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA
ONE DIMENSIONAL
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
OPTICS
ORGANIC MATERIALS
PE0601153NN
PHOSPHORUS
PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS
PHOTOCHEMISTRY
PHYSICAL AND DYNAMIC OCEANOGRAPHY
PORTABLE EQUIPMENT
SATELLITE OCEAN COLOR DATA
TEST FACILITIES
TIME DEPENDENCE
UPPER OCEAN ECOLOGY
VARIABLES
WUNRL738404075
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Summary:A modeling system has been constructed that combines ecological element cycling, photochemical processes, and bio-optical processes into a single simulation that may be coupled to hydrodynamic models that provide temperature fields as well as the advection/diffusion of state variables. The model is derived from a history of ocean biogeochemical models that describe the transformation of elemental reservoirs (carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus) based upon lower-trophic order ecosystem function. The model description of the relationship between reservoirs of organic carbon and optical properties permits the use of satellite ocean color data to validate and constrain the model. The model has been coupled to the Modular Ocean Data Assimilation System, which permits examination of the one-dimensional case in any region of interest around the globe.
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