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01 Aug 2019
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Novel metrics based on Biogeochemical Argo data to improve the model uncertainty evaluation of the CMEMS Mediterranean marine ecosystem forecasts
Stefano Salon
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS, Via Beirut 4, 34151 Trieste, Italy
Gianpiero Cossarini
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS, Via Beirut 4, 34151 Trieste, Italy
Giorgio Bolzon
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS, Via Beirut 4, 34151 Trieste, Italy
Laura Feudale
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS, Via Beirut 4, 34151 Trieste, Italy
Paolo Lazzari
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS, Via Beirut 4, 34151 Trieste, Italy
Anna Teruzzi
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS, Via Beirut 4, 34151 Trieste, Italy
Cosimo Solidoro
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS, Via Beirut 4, 34151 Trieste, Italy
Alessandro Crise
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS, Via Beirut 4, 34151 Trieste, Italy
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Ecosystem-based marine management requires coupling/integrating multiple models in one unified scheme. The widely adopted Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) is potentially a crucial high trophic level component of such schemes. However, being written in Visual Basic, integration of EwE with physical and/or biogeochemical oceanographic models, which were mostly written in Fortran, is complicated. We release a re-coding of EwE in Fortran (EwE-F) so as to facilitate its coupling/integration in such schemes.
G. Cossarini, P. Lazzari, and C. Solidoro
Biogeosciences, 12, 1647–1658, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-1647-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-1647-2015, 2015
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Adv. Sci. Res., 10, 77–84, https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-10-77-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-10-77-2013, 2013
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Approach: Operational Oceanography | Depth range: All Depths | Geographical range: Mediterranean Sea | Phenomena: Biological Processes
Pre-operational short-term forecasts for Mediterranean Sea biogeochemistry
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Short summary
After 10 years of research and development, validated analysis and forecasts of the main parameters of the Mediterranean Sea biogeochemistry (e.g. phytoplankton, nutrients, oxygen, pH, carbon fluxes) at high spatial and temporal resolution are provided in the frame of the EU Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service. Along with a traditional skill performance assessment, novel metrics exploiting the Biogeochemical Argo floats data are designed to estimate the forecasts uncertainty.
After 10 years of research and development, validated analysis and forecasts of the main...
