Projects Page

This page describes some projects that BLING users are working on. Please feel free to add your own as well as links to any publications that result from your work.

Parameterizing upper trophic levels (Carozza and Galbraith)

We are exploring ways to predict the biomass of upper trophic levels from simple ecological principles.

Respiratory impact of vertically migrating organisms (Bianchi and Galbraith)

We are including simple parameterizations to represent the alteration of the vertical remineralization profile by vertically-migrating organisms.

Nitrogen cycle (Galbraith)

A nitrogen cycle is under development, including N2 fixation, pelagic and benthic denitrification, and flexible N:P stoichiometry.

Silica cycle (DeSouza)

A simple silica cycle is under development, with implicit diatoms.

Carbon isotopes (Feinberg)

The stable isotopes of carbon (13C and 12C) will soon be available as explicit tracers.

Nutrient supply pathways (Galbraith and Palter)

We include a suite of additional tracers for looking at phosphate supply routes from the dense waters of the deep ocean to the sunlit waters above the permanent thermocline. This code differentiates nutrients that pass through high latitude surface waters (HNLC region) from nutrients mixed directly across the base of the thermocline, following the conceptual picture of Gnanadesikan (Nature, 1999).

Ocean carbon uptake (Majkut and Sarmiento)

BLING was used in an ocean-only model, forced with historical air-sea fluxes, in order to estimate changes in air-sea exchange, as part of a model intercomparison project. Published in LeQuéré et al., Nature Geoscience, 2009.