Deep chlorophyll maximum and nutricline in the Mediterranean Sea: emerging properties from a multi-platform assimilated biogeochemical model experiment

Teruzzi, Anna; Bolzon, Giorgio; Feudale, Laura; Cossarini, Gianpiero

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-6147-2021

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Deep chlorophyll maximum and nutricline in the Mediterranean Sea: emerging properties from a multi-platform assimilated biogeochemical model experiment

Anna Teruzzi, Giorgio Bolzon, Laura Feudale, and Gianpiero Cossarini

Data sets

Argo float data and metadata from Global Data Assembly Centre (Argo GDAC) Argo https://doi.org/10.17882/42182

Model code and software

inogs/3dVarBio: Multivariate version (release-4.0) Pierluigi Di Cerbo, Eric Pascolo, and Giorgio Bolzon https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5723738

The BiogeochemicalFlux Model (BFM): Equation Description and User Manual. BFMversion 5.1, BFM Reportseries N. 1, Release 1.1 M. Vichi, T. Lovato, P. Lazzari, G. Cossarini, E. Gutierrez Mlot, G. Mattia, S. Masina, W. J. McKiver, N. Pinardi, C. Solidoro, L. Tedesco, and M. Zavatarelli http://bfm-community.eu

Short summary

During summer, maxima of phytoplankton chlorophyll concentration (DCM) occur in the subsurface...