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Ciavatta, S, Lazzari, P, Álvarez, E, Bertino, L, Bolding, K, Bruggeman, J, Capet, A, Cossarini, G, Daryabor, F, Nerger, L, Popov, M, Skákala, J, Spada, S, Teruzzi, A, Wakamatsu, T, Yumruktepe, VC and Brasseur, P 2024 Control of simulated ocean ecosystem indicators by biogeochemical observations. Progress in Oceanography. 103384. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2024.103384 (In Press)
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Abstract/Summary
To protect marine ecosystems threatened by climate change and anthropic stressors, it is essential to operationally monitor ocean health indicators. These are metrics synthetizing multiple marine processes relevant to the users of operational services. Here we assess if selected ocean indicators simulated by operational models can be controlled (here meaning constrained effectively) by biogeochemical observations, by using a newly proposed methodological framework. The method consists in firstly screening the sensitivities of the indicators with respect to the initial conditions of the observable variables. These initial conditions are perturbed stochastically in Monte Carlo simulations of one-dimensional configurations of a multi-model ensemble. Then, the models are applied in three-dimensional ensemble assimilation experiments, where the reduction of the ensemble variance corroborates the controllability of the indicators by the observations. The method is applied for ten relevant ecosystem indicators (ranging from inorganic chemicals to plankton production), seven observation types (representing data from satellite and underwater platforms), and an ensemble of five biogeochemical models of different complexity, employed operationally by the European Copernicus Marine Service. We demonstrate that all the indicators are controlled by one or more types of observations. In particular, the indicators of phytoplankton phenology are controlled and improved by the merged observations from the surface ocean colour and chlorophyll profiles. Similar observations also control and reduce the uncertainty of the plankton community structure and production. However, the uncertainty of the trophic efficiency and POC increases when assimilating chlorophyll-a data, though observations were not available to assess whether that was due to a worsen model skill. We recommend that the assessment of controllability proposed here becomes a standard practice in designing operational monitoring, reanalysis and forecast systems, to ultimately provide the users of operational services with more precise estimates of ocean ecosystem indicators.
| Item Type: | Publication - Article |
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| Additional Keywords: | Marine ecosystem models Ocean indicators Operational oceanography Data assimilation Biogeochemical observationsOcean colourBiogeochemical-Argo floatsCopernicus Marine Service Sensitivity analysis Controllability Plankton Carbon fluxes |
| Divisions: | Plymouth Marine Laboratory > National Capability categories > National Capability Modelling Plymouth Marine Laboratory > National Capability categories > National Centre for Earth Observation Plymouth Marine Laboratory > Science Areas > Marine System Modelling |
| Depositing User: | S Hawkins |
| Date made live: | 06 Dec 2024 15:52 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Dec 2024 15:52 |
| URI: | https://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/10347 |
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