Geoscientific Model Development
Geoscientific Model Development
GMD
Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-841-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-841-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
Development and technical paper
 | 
31 Jan 2022
Development and technical paper |  | 31 Jan 2022

The importance of turbulent ocean–sea ice nutrient exchanges for simulation of ice algal biomass and production with CICE6.1 and Icepack 1.2

Pedro Duarte, Philipp Assmy, Karley Campbell, and Arild Sundfjord

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-841-2022-supplement

Data sets

The importance of turbulent ocean-sea ice nutrient exchanges for simulation of ice algal biomass and production with CICE6.1 and Icepack 1.2 - CICE forcing files (Version v1.0) Pedro Duarte https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4672176

The importance of turbulent ocean-sea ice nutrient exchanges for simulation of ice algal biomass and production with CICE6.1 and Icepack 1.2 - model simulations (Version v1.0) Pedro Duarte https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4672210

Model code and software

CICE-Consortium/CICE: CICE with bottom drag, heat and nutrient turbulent diffusion Pedro Duarte https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4675097

CICE-Consortium/Icepack: Icepack with bottom drag, heat and nutrient turbulent diffusion (Version 1.1) Pedro Duarte https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4675021

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Short summary
Sea ice modeling is an important part of Earth system models (ESMs). The results of ESMs are used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in their reports. In this study we present an improvement to calculate the exchange of nutrients between the ocean and the sea ice. This nutrient exchange is an essential process to keep the ice-associated ecosystem functioning. We found out that previous calculation methods may underestimate the primary production of the ice-associated ecosystem.
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