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Optimal parameters for the ocean's nutrient, carbon, and oxygen cycles compensate for circulation biases but replumb the biological pump
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Mark Holzer
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Matthew A. Chamberlain
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Richard J. Matear
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Nathaniel L. Bindoff
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
François W. Primeau
Department of Earth System Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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Modeling the ocean's carbon and oxygen cycles accurately is challenging. Parameter optimization improves the fit to observed tracers but can introduce artifacts in the biological pump. Organic-matter production and subsurface remineralization rates adjust to compensate for circulation biases, changing the pathways and timescales with which nutrients return to the surface. Circulation biases can thus strongly alter the system’s response to ecological change, even when parameters are optimized.
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