Sensitivity analysis of an ocean carbon cycle model in the North Atlantic: an investigation of parameters affecting the air-sea CO2 flux, primary production and export of detritus

• Published in: Ocean Science
• Main Authors: Scott, V., Kettle, H., Merchant, C. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: European Geosciences Union 2011
• Subjects: Irminger Sea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/33717/; http://www.ocean-sci.net/7/405/2011/os-7-405-2011.html

The sensitivity of the biological parameters in a nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton-detritus (NPZD) model in the calculation of the air-sea CO2 flux, primary production and detrital export is analysed. We explore the effect on these outputs of variation in the values of the twenty parameters that c...