BFM17 v1.0: a reduced biogeochemical flux model for upper-ocean biophysical simulations

Smith, Katherine M.; Kern, Skyler; Hamlington, Peter E.; Zavatarelli, Marco; Pinardi, Nadia; Klee, Emily F.; Niemeyer, Kyle E.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-2419-2021

Articles | Volume 14, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-2419-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-2419-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 5

Model description paper

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05 May 2021

Model description paper |

| 05 May 2021

BFM17 v1.0: a reduced biogeochemical flux model for upper-ocean biophysical simulations

Katherine M. Smith, Skyler Kern, Peter E. Hamlington, Marco Zavatarelli, Nadia Pinardi, Emily F. Klee, and Kyle E. Niemeyer

Data sets

Data for "Reduced-Order Biogeochemical Flux Model for Upper OceanBiophysical Simulations" [Data set] Katherine Smith, Skyler Kern, Peter Hamlington, Marco Zavatarelli, Nadia Pinardi, Emily Klee, and Kyle Niemeyer https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3840562

Model code and software

marco-zavatarelli/BFM17-56 BFM17-56 (Version BFM17-56) Katherine M. Smith, Skyler Kern, Peter E. Hamlington, Marco Zavatarelli, Nadia Pinardi, Emily F. Klee, and Kyle E. Niemeyer https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3839984

Short summary

We present a newly developed reduced-order biogeochemical flux model that is complex and flexible enough to capture open-ocean ecosystem dynamics but reduced enough to incorporate into highly resolved numerical simulations with limited additional computational cost. The model provides improved correlations between model output and field data, indicating that significant improvements in the reproduction of real-world data can be achieved with a small number of variables.