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
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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

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RC1: 'Referee Comments on Manuscript GMD-2020-134', Anonymous Referee #1, 02 Sep 2020
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 21 Oct 2020
AC1: 'Author Comment on Referee Comment 1', Peter Hamlington, 17 Dec 2020
AC2: 'Author Comment on Referee Comment 2', Peter Hamlington, 17 Dec 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Peter Hamlington on behalf of the Authors (14 Jan 2021) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (19 Jan 2021) by Sandra Arndt

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (31 Jan 2021)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (01 Feb 2021) by Sandra Arndt

AR by Peter Hamlington on behalf of the Authors (19 Feb 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (02 Mar 2021) by Sandra Arndt

AR by Peter Hamlington on behalf of the Authors (11 Mar 2021) Manuscript

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.