Articles | Volume 13, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-4503-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-4503-2020
Model description paper
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25 Sep 2020
Model description paper |  | 25 Sep 2020

CSIRO Environmental Modelling Suite (EMS): scientific description of the optical and biogeochemical models (vB3p0)

Mark E. Baird, Karen A. Wild-Allen, John Parslow, Mathieu Mongin, Barbara Robson, Jennifer Skerratt, Farhan Rizwi, Monika Soja-Woźniak, Emlyn Jones, Mike Herzfeld, Nugzar Margvelashvili, John Andrewartha, Clothilde Langlais, Matthew P. Adams, Nagur Cherukuru, Malin Gustafsson, Scott Hadley, Peter J. Ralph, Uwe Rosebrock, Thomas Schroeder, Leonardo Laiolo, Daniel Harrison, and Andrew D. L. Steven

Model code and software

CSIRO Environmental Modelling Suite (EMS) Release v1.1.1 CSIRO (2019): EMS Release v1.1.1. v2. CSIRO. https://doi.org/10.25919/5e701c5c2d9c9

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Short summary
For 20+ years, the Commonwealth Science Industry and Research Organisation (CSIRO) has been developing a biogeochemical (BGC) model for coupling with a hydrodynamic and sediment model for application in estuaries, coastal waters and shelf seas. This paper provides a full mathematical description (equations, parameters), model evaluation and access to the numerical code. The model is particularly suited to applications in shallow waters where benthic processes are critical to ecosystem function.