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Numerical Model Approaches to Address Recent Problems on Pelagic Ecosystems

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A review of ecosystem modeling is presented, classifying the models on the basis of the problems they address. The problems are chosen mainly from those concerning the North Pacific and encompass: limiting factors in high-nutrient/low-chlorophyll (HNLC) regions; nutrient supply to the subtropical gyre; long-term variation; parameter optimization; oceanic provinces. A future research direction should be to sort out priorities of various biogeochemical and ecological processes with the long-term variation problem being the axis, while keeping the model complexity at a minimum and invoking the parameter optimization technique.

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Kawamiya, M. Numerical Model Approaches to Address Recent Problems on Pelagic Ecosystems. Journal of Oceanography 58, 365–378 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015822011358

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