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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-11-573-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-11-573-2015
Research article
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20 Jul 2015
Research article |  | 20 Jul 2015

Constraining parameters in marine pelagic ecosystem models – is it actually feasible with typical observations of standing stocks?

U. Löptien and H. Dietze

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Marine biogeochemical ocean models are embedded into earth system models - which are, to an increasing degree, applied to project the fate of our warming world. These biogeochemical models generally depend on poorly constrained model parameters. In this study we investigate the the demands on observations for an objective estimation of such parameters. A major result is that even modest noise (10%) inherent to observations can hinder the assignment of reasonable parameters.