Ongoing research topics in ocean carbon cycle modelling include:
- analysing and improving the ocean component of global carbon
cycle simulations which include the ocean, atmosphere and terrestrial
carbon cycles;
- implementing the ocean carbon cycle model at the increased
horizontal model resolution of 1.25 degrees as used in the climate prediction models;
- coupling the production of DMS into the ocean ecosystem
model (DMS is a gas produced by phytoplankton which, when
it enters the atmosphere, has the potential to alter properties
of clouds). Observations of DMS, and other chemical species
important for climate, are being compiled by the SOLAS
Project Integrator for use by climate modellers;
- include multiple types of phytoplankton in the ecosystem
model;
- intercomparison of our ocean carbon cycle model with models
from other groups around the world through the global OCMIP-2 project and the EC-funded European component, GOSAC.
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