Biological Models
NPZD & CPD

Rubao Ji

Collaborators: Davis, Chen, Beardsley, Townsend,
Durbin, Runge, Flagg, Tian, Qiao, Petrik
Status
On-line coupling (off-line in future?)
Initiated NPZD with climatology (NP)
Completed 1995 whole year run for NPZD
Gathered copepod data (GLOBEC,MARMAP, ECOMON, AZMP)
Testing CPD model (Pseudocalanus), impletmented Òstage with mean ageÓ method, testing ÒEOFÓ method
 Ready for NPZD run in other GLOBEC yrs

Model structure
Surface - Nitrogen
Surface - Phytoplankton
Transect - Nitrogen
Transect - Phytoplankton
Model-data comparison (1)
Model-data
comparison (2)
Nitrogen cycle
CPD Initial Condition
Day 30
Day 90
Slide 14
Slide 15
CC VS BEC on GB
Flux comparison
CC VS BEC in JB
CC VS BEC in WB