Upper Ocean Physics as Relevant to Ecosystem Dynamics: a Tutorial

• Abstract
• 1. The Role of Plankton Ecology in Climate Change Research
  • 1.1. The Biological Pump and Seawater Carbonate Chemistry
    • 1.1.1. A Summary of Carbonate Buffer System Chemistry
    • 1.1.2. Aqueous Chemistry
    • 1.1.3. Gas Equilibrium Chemistry
  • 1.2. Nutrient Limitation and the High Nutrient Low Productivity (HNLP) Problem
  • 1.3. Partitioning between Calcitic and Siliceous Ecosystems
• 2. The Role of Upper Ocean Physics in Plankton Ecosystem Modeling
  • 2.1. The Depth of Turbulent Mixing and Light Penetration
  • 2.2. Air-Sea Fluxes
    • 2.2.1. Heat
    • 2.2.2. Fresh Water
    • 2.2.3. Light
    • 2.2.4. Momentum
  • 2.3. Mixing Models
    • 2.3.1. Integrated TKE, or "Bulk", Models
    • 2.3.2. Shear Instability Models
      • 2.3.2.1. Formulation
      • 2.3.2.2. Behavior
    • 2.3.3. Turbulence Closure Models
      • 2.3.3.1. Formulation
      • 2.3.3.2. Behavior
    • 2.3.4. Mixed Layer Model Comparison
      • 2.3.4.1. The Stability of Empirical Parameters
      • 2.3.4.2. Accuracy
      • 2.3.4.3. Computational Efficiency
  • 2.4. Physical Transport of Dissolved Nutrients into the Euphotic Zone
• Summary
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