Towards a Model of Ocean Biogeochemical Processes

✍ Scribed by Geoffrey T. Evans (auth.), Geoffrey T. Evans, Michael J. R. Fasham (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Leaves: 350
Series: NATO ASI Series 10
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Key biogeochemical events in the ocean take place in less than a second, are studied in experiments lasting a few hours, and determine cycles that last over seasons or even years. Models of the controlling processes thus have to take into account these time scales. This book aims at achieving consensus among these controlling processes at all relevant time scales. It helps understand the global carbon cycle including the production and breakdown of solved organic matter and the production, sinking and breakdown of particles. The emphasis on considering all time scales in submodel formulation is new and of interest to all those working in global ocean models and related fields.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-VI
Themes in Modelling Ocean Biogeochemical Processes....Pages 1-19
Global Extrapolation....Pages 21-46
Fluctuations : A Task Package for the Physicists....Pages 47-70
Trophic Resolution....Pages 71-92
Modelling Growth and Light Absorption in the Marine Diatom Skeletonema Costatum ....Pages 93-121
Carbon: A Phycocentric View....Pages 123-152
Towards a General Description of Phytoplankton Growth for Biogeochemical Models....Pages 153-176
Modelling Zooplankton....Pages 177-191
Microbial Processes and the Biological Carbon Pump....Pages 193-208
Dissolved Organic Matter in Biogeochemical Models of the Ocean....Pages 209-225
Modelling Particle Fluxes....Pages 227-236
The Significance of Interannual Variability....Pages 237-260
Some Parametric and Structural Simulations With a three-Dimensional Ecosystem Model of Nitrogen Cycling in the North Atlantic Euphotic Zone....Pages 261-294
Data Assimilation for Biogeochemical Models....Pages 295-316
An Annotated Bibliography of Marine Biological Models....Pages 317-339
Back Matter....Pages 341-350

✦ Subjects

Oceanography; Mineralogy; Meteorology/Climatology; Geoecology/Natural Processes; Nature Conservation; Ecology

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