Articles | Volume 13, issue 15
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-4533-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-4533-2016
Research article
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12 Aug 2016
Research article |  | 12 Aug 2016

Marine regime shifts in ocean biogeochemical models: a case study in the Gulf of Alaska

Claudie Beaulieu, Harriet Cole, Stephanie Henson, Andrew Yool, Thomas R. Anderson, Lee de Mora, Erik T. Buitenhuis, Momme Butenschön, Ian J. Totterdell, and J. Icarus Allen

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Regime shifts have been suggested in the late 1970s and late 1980s in the Gulf of Alaska with important consequences for fisheries. Here we investigate the ability of a suite of ocean biogeochemical models of varying complexity to simulate these regime shifts. Our results demonstrate that ocean models can successfully simulate regime shifts in the Gulf of Alaska region, thereby improving our understanding of how changes in physical conditions are propagated from lower to upper trophic levels.
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