| Description: |
REcoM - in its current standard set-up - carries 21 tracers, including dissolved inorganic carbon and alkalinity for the carbonate system, the macronutrients dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) and silicic acid and the trace metal iron. REcoM2 has two phytoplankton classes, nanophytoplankton (with implicit representation of calcifiers) and diatoms. The intracellular stoichiometry of C:N:Si:Chl pools for diatoms and C:N:CaCO3:Chl pools for nanophytoplankton is allowed to respond dynamically to environmental conditions following Geider et al., 1998. The intracellular iron pool is a function of the intracellular nitrogen concentration (fixed Fe:N) as iron is physiologically linked to enzyme formation, especially the photosynthetic electron transport chain (Raven et al., 1988, Behrenfeld et al., 2013). Dead organic matter is transferred to detritus by aggregation and grazing by one zooplankton class and the sinking and advection of detritus is represented explicitly. |
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