Articles | Volume 10, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-4723-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-4723-2017
Model description paper
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22 Dec 2017
Model description paper |  | 22 Dec 2017

231Pa and 230Th in the ocean model of the Community Earth System Model (CESM1.3)

Sifan Gu and Zhengyu Liu

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Both biotic 231Pa and 230Th and abiotic 231Pa and 230Th have been implemented in the ocean model of CESM. Under present-day climate forcing, our model is able to simulate water column 231Pa and 230Th activity and the sediment 231Pa-to-230Th activity ratio in good agreement with observations. In HOSING experiments, the biotic and abiotic sediment 231Pa-to-230Th activity ratios behave similarly over large areas of low productivity, but can differ substantially in some regions of high productivity.
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