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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-1419-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-1419-2017
Research article
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21 Mar 2017
Research article |  | 21 Mar 2017

Observing and modelling phytoplankton community structure in the North Sea

David A. Ford, Johan van der Molen, Kieran Hyder, John Bacon, Rosa Barciela, Veronique Creach, Robert McEwan, Piet Ruardij, and Rodney Forster

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This study presents a novel set of in situ observations of phytoplankton community structure for the North Sea. These observations were used to validate two physical–biogeochemical ocean model simulations, each of which used different variants of the widely used European Regional Seas Ecosystem Model (ERSEM). The results suggest the ability of the models to reproduce the observed phytoplankton community structure was dependent on the details of the biogeochemical model parameterizations used.
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