Iron and sulfur cycling in the cGENIE.muffin Earth system model (v0.9.21)

van de Velde, Sebastiaan J.; Hülse, Dominik; Reinhard, Christopher T.; Ridgwell, Andy

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-2713-2021

Articles | Volume 14, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-2713-2021

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-2713-2021

© 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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18 May 2021

Model description paper |

| 18 May 2021

Iron and sulfur cycling in the cGENIE.muffin Earth system model (v0.9.21)

Sebastiaan J. van de Velde, Dominik Hülse, Christopher T. Reinhard, and Andy Ridgwell

Model code and software

cGENIE Earth system model 'muffin' v0.9.21 Andy Ridgwell, Chris Reinhard, Sebastiaan van de Velde, Markus Adloff, D. Hülse, Jamie Wilson, Ben Ward, Pam Vervoort, Fanny Monteiro, S. Kirtland-Turner, and Mingsong Li https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4651390

derpycode/muffindoc: (Version v0.9.21) Andy Ridgwell, D. Hülse, Carlye Peterson, Ben Ward, sjszas, evansmn, and and Rhi Jones https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4651394

Short summary

Biogeochemical interactions between iron and sulfur are central to the long-term biogeochemical evolution of Earth’s oceans. Here, we introduce an iron–sulphur cycle in a model of Earth's oceans. Our analyses show that the results of the model are robust towards parameter choices and that simulated concentrations and reactions are comparable to those observed in ancient ocean analogues (anoxic lakes). Our model represents an important step forward in the study of iron–sulfur cycling.