Assessing the suitability of ACCESS-OM2-01 outputs for ecological applications

• Main Author: Fierro-Arcos, Denisse
• Format: Software
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: python; ocean; sea ice; ecosystem; Southern Ocean; mixed layer depth; Fierro; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7700075; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7700075

This repository contains all material necessary to reproduce the figures and summary statistics presented in the publication Analysis of ecologically relevant sea ice and ocean variables for the Southern Ocean using a high-resolution model to inform ecosystem studies by Denisse Fierro-Arcos, Stuart Corney, Amelie Meyer, Hakase Hayashida, Andrew E. Kiss and Petra Heil. This manuscript has been submitted for publication to Progress in Oceanography and it is currently under review. In this study we examined the suitability of using outputs from the second run of ACCESS-OM2-01, a high-resolution coupled ocean-sea ice model, to answer questions about ecological impacts in the Southern Ocean. These notebooks can be used as a template for testing the suitability of model outputs for ecological applications, as well as quantitative estimates of changes in key environmental variables for the Southern Ocean over the past 50 years. The Marine Ecosystem Assessment for the Southern Ocean (MEASO) regions were used to evaluate and quantify the rate of change in the physical environment of the Southern Ocean. These regions were designed to establish a standard spatial scale for reporting and assessing environmental and ecosystem change in the SO, and to facilitate comparisons across studies and throughout time. The workflow presented in these notebooks can be adapted to evaluate different physical variables of ecological relevance and to outputs from different ocean models from an ecological perspective, as well as using different regional boundaries to examine change. If you use this software, please cite it as below.