EcoGEnIE 1.0: plankton ecology in the cGEnIE Earth system model

Ward, Ben A.; Wilson, Jamie D.; Death, Ros M.; Monteiro, Fanny M.; Yool, Andrew; Ridgwell, Andy

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4241-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4241-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4241-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 10

Model description paper

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18 Oct 2018

Model description paper |

| 18 Oct 2018

EcoGEnIE 1.0: plankton ecology in the cGEnIE Earth system model

Ben A. Ward, Jamie D. Wilson, Ros M. Death, Fanny M. Monteiro, Andrew Yool, and Andy Ridgwell

Model code and software

derpycode/muffindoc: Ward et al. [2018] (GMD) manual release (b) A. Ridgwell, C. Peterson, B. Ward, and R. Jones https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1407658

Short summary

A novel configuration of an Earth system model includes a diverse plankton community. The model – EcoGEnIE – is sufficiently complex to reproduce a realistic, size-structured plankton community, while at the same time retaining the efficiency to run to a global steady state (~ 10k years). The increased capabilities of EcoGEnIE will allow future exploration of ecological communities on much longer timescales than have so far been examined in global ocean models and particularly for past climate.