A marine physical biogeochemical model simulation was performed with the model MOM-ERGOM for the year 2012 covering the Baltic Sea. Previously, MOM-ERGOM had been initialized for several decades without tagging until 1999 and, then, from 2000 to 2011 with tagging (see below; three years would have been sufficient). The model output has been validated with measurement data of the "IOW Baltic Monitoring and long-term data program" (https://www.io-warnemuende.de/iowdb.html IOW: Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde) and from the HELCOM database which, now, is part of the ICES Oceanography Data Portal (https://www.ices.dk/data/data-portals/Pages/ocean.aspx; HELCOM: Helsinki Commissionm; ICES: International Council for the Exploration of the Seas). A publication is in preparation.
The model simulation was forced by coastDat2 COSMO-CLM data (doi:10.1594/WDCC/coastDat-2_COSMO-CLM). Atmospheric nitrogen deposition data of 16x16 km2 horizontal resolution were provided by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht within the EU BONUS SHEBA Project (Karl et al., 2019, doi:10.5194/acp-19-7019-2019).
Nitrogen from atmospheric deposition of nitrogen from shipping emissions and from all emission sectors has been tagged in the model simulation according to a method by Menésguen et al. (2006, doi: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.1_part_2.0591). Therefore, all nitrogen-containing model variables exist three times in the output: once as regular variables and once per tagged nitrogen source (total atmospheric and shipping-related).
The simulation was performed at the North-German Supercomputing Alliance (HLRN, project id: mvk00054, zulassung.hlrn.de/kurzbeschreibungen/mvk00054.pdf). The model output data were processed and evaluated on servers provided by the project 'PROSO - Prozesse von Spurenstoffen in der Ostsee' (FKZ 03F0779A).
Technical details:
model run on MPP1 Cluster of the HLRN-III Konrad Comlpex
each simulation performed on 527 cores distributed on 22 nodes (24 cores per node; one core on one node not used) configuration of one node:
Processor: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2695v2 CPUs (12 cores per CPU), R_peak: 230 GFlop/s
RAM: 64 GiB DDR3-1866
OS: SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) version 11
Interconnect: Cray Aries
Neumann, Daniel; Karl, Matthias; Radtke, Hagen; Neumann, Thomas (2019). MOM-ERGOM western Baltic Sea simulations with tagging of atmospheric nitrogen deposition by CMAQ. World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/MOMERGOMBSCMAQ
There are not gaps in the spatial and temporal coverage. Land grid cells are indicated by missing values (-1.e+20f).
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Description
There are not gaps in the spatial and temporal coverage. Land grid cells are indicated by missing values (-1.e+20f).
All prognostic biogeochemical model variables and a few relevant physical model variables are provided. Each nitrogen-containing prognostic variable has two counterparts with the suffixes "_atmos_tot_N" and "_atmos_ship_N" indicating the total atmosheric and shipping-related nitrogen, respectively, in this variable.
Consistency report
In the used ERGOM version, the biogeochemical system is represented by 31 state variables of which 26 are in the water column and 5 in the surface sed...
Description
In the used ERGOM version, the biogeochemical system is represented by 31 state variables of which 26 are in the water column and 5 in the surface sediment. Basic nutrients - e.g. nitrate or phosphate- enter the system via river input, atmospheric deposition, or recycling of organic matter. They are consumed by phytoplankton including cyanobacteria. Cyanobacteria do not consume nitrate or ammonium but fixate molecular nitrogen to obtain needed nitrogen. Phytoplankton including cyanobacteria is grazed by zooplankton. Plankton respirates and dies. Dead plankton becomes detritus that sinks to the sediment.
FAIR
F-UJI result: total 66 %
Description
Summary: Findable: 6 of 7 level; Accessible: 2 of 3 level; Interoperable: 3 of 4 level; Reusable: 5 of 10 level
SQA - Scientific Quality Assurance 'approved by author'
Result Date
2019-11-06
Technical Quality Assurance (TQA)
TQA - Technical Quality Assurance 'approved by WDCC'
Description
1. Number of data sets is correct and > 0: passed; 2. Size of every data set is > 0: passed; 3. The data sets and corresponding metadata are accessible: passed; 4. The data sizes are controlled and correct: passed; 5. The temporal coverage description (metadata) is consistent to the data: passed; 6. The format is correct: passed; 7. Variable description and data are consistent: passed
Method
WDCC-TQA checklist
Method Description
Checks performed by WDCC. The list of TQA metrics are documented in the 'WDCC User Guide for Data Publication' Chapter 8.1.1
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