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- Title
Validation of the NEMO-ERSEM operational ecosystem model for the North West European Continental Shelf.
- Authors
Edwards, K. P.; Barciela, R.; Butenschon, M.
- Abstract
This paper details updates to the Met Office's operational coupled hydrodynamicecosystem model from the Medium-Resolution Continental Shelf - POLCOMSERSEM (MRCS-PE) system (Siddorn et al., 2007) to the 7km Atlantic Margin Model NEMO-ERSEM (AMM7-NE) system. We also provide a validation of the ecosystem component of the new operational system. Comparisons have been made between the model variables and available in situ, satellite and climatological data. The AMM7-NE system has also been benchmarked against the MRCS-PE system. The transition to the new AMM7-NE system was successful and it has been running op erationally since March 2011 and has been providing products through MyOcean (http://www.myocean.eu.org) since July 2011. The results presented herein show the AMM7-NE system performs better than the MRCS-PE system with the most improvement in the model nutrient fields. The problem of nutrient accumulation in the MRCSPE system appears to be solved in the new AMM7-NE system with nutrient dynamics improved throughout the domain. Improvements in model chlorophyll are also seen but are more modest.
- Subjects
CONTINENTAL shelf; HYDRODYNAMICS; MARINE ecological models; REMOTE-sensing images; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATOLOGY
- Publication
Ocean Science Discussions, 2012, Vol 9, Issue 2, p745
- ISSN
1812-0806
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/osd-9-745-2012