Technical Note: A generic law-of-the-minimum flux limiter for simulating  substrate limitation in biogeochemical models

Tang, J. Y.; Riley, W. J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-723-2016

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-723-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-723-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

Technical note

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05 Feb 2016

Technical note |

| 05 Feb 2016

Technical Note: A generic law-of-the-minimum flux limiter for simulating substrate limitation in biogeochemical models

J. Y. Tang and W. J. Riley

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Final revised paper (published on 05 Feb 2016)
Preprint (discussion started on 19 Aug 2015)

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RC C5440: 'review of bg-2015-365 Submitted on 20 Jul 2015.', Niall Broekhuizen, 15 Sep 2015
- AC C7394: 'Response', Jinyun Tang, 05 Nov 2015
RC C5957: 'Review of Tang and Riley', Anonymous Referee #2, 30 Sep 2015
- AC C7401: 'Response', Jinyun Tang, 05 Nov 2015

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (09 Dec 2015) by Ulrike Seibt

AR by Jinyun Tang on behalf of the Authors (09 Dec 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (22 Jan 2016) by Ulrike Seibt

AR by Jinyun Tang on behalf of the Authors (22 Jan 2016)

Short summary

We present a generic flux-limiting approach to simultaneously handle the availability limitation from many substrates, a problem common in all biogeochemical models. Our approach does not have the ordering problem like a few existing ad hoc approaches, and is straightforward to implement. Our results imply that significant uncertainties could have occurred in many biogeochemical models because of the improper handling of the substrate co-limitation problem.