Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-1865-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-1865-2019
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06 May 2019
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Reciprocal bias compensation and ensuing uncertainties in model-based climate projections: pelagic biogeochemistry versus ocean mixing

Ulrike Löptien and Heiner Dietze

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Earth System Climate Model M. Eby http://climate.uvic.ca/model/

Model code and output GEOMAR https://data.geomar.de/thredds/catalog/open_access/loeptien_dietze_2018_bg/catalog.html

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Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions trigger complex climate feedbacks. Output form Earth system models provides a basis for related political decision-making. One challenge is to arrive at reliable model parameter estimates for the ocean biogeochemistry module. We illustrate pitfalls through which flaws in the ocean module are masked by wrongly tuning the biogeochemistry and discuss ensuing uncertainties in climate projections.
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