Coupling general ocean circulation models with the BFM marine ecosystem model

• Published in: Proceedings of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Main Author: Ilya A. Chernov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2018
• Subjects: numerical modeling; marine ecosystems; the white sea; the arctic; the world ocean; ice biochemistry; Science; Q; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; White Sea; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17076/mat830; https://doaj.org/article/3f513197256743839ddf5f100f6ce533

The coupling of numerical geophysical models of a sea with marine ecosystem models is considered. For the latter, BFM was chosen and coupled with three Russian models for three seas of different spatial scales: the White Sea (JASMINE), the Arctic Ocean (FEMAO), and the global ocean as a part of the Earth system (INMCM). We describe technical details of implementation and discuss important questions of the computing efficiency and sensitivity of the model to the sea-ice subsystem and boundary values. The ecology model can simultaneously embrace pelagic, benthic, and sympagic ecosystems.