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Dataset: GoM Biological (NPZD) Model
Deployment: lab_SMAST-model

Model output from nutrients-phytoplankton-zooplankton-detritus (NPZD) model, Gulf of Maine/Georges Bank.
Principal Investigator: 
Changsheng Chen (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth SMAST, UMASSD-SMAST)
Rubao Ji (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI)
BCO-DMO Data Manager: 
Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)
Project: 
Version: 
updated
Version Date: 
2015-05-12
Data URL:
 https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/558241/data

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Description

The nutrients-phytoplankton-zooplankton-detritus (NPZD) model was described by Ji et al. (2008) (Citation: Ji, R., C. Davis, C. Chen, and R. Beardsley, 2008. Influence of local and external processes on the annual nitrogen cycle and primary productivity on Georges Bank: A 3-D biological-physical modeling study. Journal of Marine Systems, 73:31-47. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2007.08.002). Many key aspects of lower trophic level food web dynamics are described in this model using methods that are widely accepted in the marine ecosystem modeling community, including (1) Michaelis–Menten kinetics in nutrient uptake, (2) Holling type II functional response of zooplankton grazing on phytoplankton, (3) temperature/light-dependent growth for phytoplankton and temperature-dependent grazing and respiration for zooplankton, (4) self-shading of phytoplankton growth, and (5) sinking of phytoplankton and detritus.

Note: The "Get Data" button, above, goes to an external site where the data files are hosted: http://www.smast.umassd.edu:8080/thredds/catalog/models/fvcom/NECOFS/Archive/NPZD/catalog.html

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