Data supporting publication "OCEAN BIOGEOCHEMICAL EXTREMES AND COMPOUND EVENTS" ...

• Main Author: Gruber, Nicolas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: ETH Zurich 2021
• Subjects: Ocean extremes, ocean warming, ocean acidification, ocean deoxygenation; infoeu-repo/classification/ddc/550; Earth sciences; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000501082; http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/501082

This dataset is associated with the Perspectives article entitled "OCEAN BIOGEOCHEMICAL EXTREMES AND COMPOUND EVENTS" written by N. Gruber, Philip W. Boyd, Thomas L. Frölicher, and Meike Vogt. The data provided here show the distribution in space and time of a number of ocean biogeochemical extremes as simulated by two models, i.e, the global GFDL Earth System Model and the regional ROMS-BEC model. The abstract of the publication: "The ocean is warming, losing oxygen, and it is being acidified, primarily as a result of anthropogenic carbon emissions(Breitburg et al., 2018; Cheng et al., 2017; Gattuso et al., 2015; Gruber, 2011). With ocean warming, acidification, and deoxygenation projected to increase for decades(Bopp et al., 2013; Kwiatkowski et al., 2020), extreme events, such as marine heatwaves(Oliver et al., 2021), are likely to intensify, occur more often, persist for longer, and extend over larger regions(Benedetti-Cecchi, 2021; Thomas Lukas Frölicher et al., 2018; Oliver et al., 2018, 2019). ... : Model simulation results: Part I: global model results from the GFDL Earth System Model The global extreme event analysis was conducted with simulation results from the fully coupled Earth system model ESM2M developed at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(Dunne et al., 2013). The atmosphere has a horizontal resolution of 2° latitude x 2.5° longitude and the ocean has a nominal horizontal resolution of 1° latitude and 1° longitude, increasing toward the Equator to up to 0.3°. Ocean biogeochemistry is simulated by the Tracers Of Phytoplankton with Allometric Zooplankton version 2.0 (TOPAZ2). It represents 30 prognostic tracers, includes three phytoplankton functional groups and implicitly simulated zooplankton activity. The GFDL ESM2M captures the observed large-scale biogeochemical patterns and variability. We use a 500-yr preindustrial control simulation with prescribed atmospheric CO2 concentrations at 286 ppm, as well as a historical ...