Articles | Volume 8, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-2929-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-2929-2015
Development and technical paper
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23 Sep 2015
Development and technical paper |  | 23 Sep 2015

MOPS-1.0: towards a model for the regulation of the global oceanic nitrogen budget by marine biogeochemical processes

I. Kriest and A. Oschlies

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We use a global model of oceanic P, N, and O2 cycles to investigate consequences of uncertainties in description of organic matter sinking, remineralization, denitrification, and N2-Fixation. After all biogeochemical and physical processes have been spun-up into a dynamically consistent steady-state, particle sinking and oxidant affinities of aerobic and anaerobic remineralization determine the extent of oxygen minimum zones, global nitrogen fluxes, and the oceanic nitrogen inventory.