搅拌,混合,生长:微尺度过程改变大尺度浮游植物动力学
Stirring, mixing, growing: microscale processes change larger scale phytoplankton dynamics
摘要:
海洋系统的定量描述受到尺度分离这一主要问题的限制:大多数海洋生物化学过程发生在亚厘米尺度上,而对地球生物地球化学循环的贡献则在更大的尺度上表达,直到行星尺度。尽管计算能力和观测能力有了很大的提高,但建模方法仍然停留在一种旧的观点上,认为微观尺度无法对更大尺度产生实质性影响。由于对不同尺度之间的相互作用缺乏广泛的理论认识,导致了具有不确定预测能力的数值模型的激增。我们表明,一个增强的拉格朗日建模框架,允许这些相互作用,可以很容易地解决令人费解的问题,如浮游植物水华的物候,或垂直变化的混合层。
英文摘要:
The quantitative description of marine systems is constrained by a major issue of scale separation: most marine biochemical processes occur at sub-centimeter scales, while the contribution to the Earth's biogeochemical cycles is expressed at much larger scales, up to the planetary one. In spite of vastly improved computing power and observational capabilities, the modeling approach has remained anchored to an old view that sees the microscales as unable to substantially affect larger ones. The lack of a widespread theoretical appreciation of the interactions between vastly different scales has led to the proliferation of numerical models with uncertain predictive capabilities. We show that an enhanced Lagrangian modeling framework, allowing for those interactions, can easily tackle puzzling problems such as the phenology of phytoplankton blooms, or vertical variability in mixed layers.
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