PARADIGM: The Partnership for Advancing Interdisciplinary Global Modeling Annual Report - Year 2

Abstract

Our primary scientific objective is to improve our understanding of the mean state, seasonal cycle, and natural interannual to decadal variability of global and basin-scale biogeographical patterns. Why do different ecosystems reside where they do? What combination of forcing and biological responses drives the observed long-term variability and apparent ecosystem regime shifts? The intrinsic scales of ocean ecology are set by the growth and removal of phytoplankton, with time-constants of one to a few days. Our project scope, therefore, encompasses the range of coupled dynamics of ocean ecology, biogeochemistry, and physics on scales from sub-diurnal to multi-decadal and submesoscale to global.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA515427

Entities

People

  • Charles R. Mccain
  • Dale E. Haidvogel
  • David M. Karl
  • Dennis J. McGillicuddy
  • Eileen E. Hofmann
  • Eric. P. Chassignet
  • Hugh Ducklow
  • James A. Yoder
  • John C. Kindle
  • John J. Cullen
  • Kenneth L. Denman
  • Lewis M. Rothstein
  • Mark R. Abbott
  • Michael Follows
  • Richard D. Smith
  • Scott C. Doney

Organizations

  • University of Rhode Island

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Boundary Layer
  • Chemistry
  • Climate Change
  • Data Mining
  • Data Visualization
  • Geography
  • High Resolution
  • North Pacific Ocean
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Optical Properties
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Quantum Yields
  • Radiation
  • Sargasso Sea
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Marine Ecotoxicology
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers