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People
Manfredi Manizza,
Stephanie Dutkiewicz,
Mick Follows
and Chris Hill
Project Description
This project is part of a larger effort studying the Arctic region carbon cycle, including developing
better understanding of (a) exchanges between marine and terrestrial carbon pools and
(b) the possible exchanges between these large carbon reservoirs and the atmosphere
that have the theoretical potential for significant climate impact.
In this project, an Arctic sub-domain of the cs510 solution is being
extracted. This extracted region is shown in the figure below. The coloured
field shows the local zonal currents at one instance in time for the
extracted region
The cs510 solutions (time varying velocity, hydrographic and sea-ice
cover fields) for the
extracted region will be used in this project to drive offline configurations of MITgcm with
carbon/biogeochemistry packages activated. This provides a system for making
estimates of and developing models of air-sea-land-ice exchanges of CO2 in the
presence of realistic eddying flows and with active biological and chemical processes.
Status
This project is in its early stages, developing tools for
extracting the appropriate sub-region, configuring the sub-domain model
derived from the cs510 global model and testing
passive tracer transport scenarios for the chosen region.
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