ECOSMO - ECOSystem Model

Contact person

Ute Daewel

Description

ECOSMO is designed to simulates biogeochemical processes in marine ecosystems. The lower trophic level model includes 16 state variables with a functional group approach including two zooplankton groups, three phytoplankton groups, the nitrogen, phosphorus and silicon cycle, oxygen, detritus, biogenic opal, dissolve organic matter, and three sediment groups. Recent developments of the model include coupling to carbon chemistry, higher trophic level components (ECOSMO E2E: fish and macrobenthos), sea-ice biogeochemistry and chemical pollutants. ECOSMO can be flexibly coupled to various hydrodynamic models through the coupling interface FABM. The model has been applied to various marine ecosystems (NWES; North Atlantic/Arctic; global) and serves as the ecosystem component for the CMEMS Arctic Marine Forecast Center.

Model(s)

ECOSMO : Apache 2.0

Programming language(s)

FORTRAN

Related sub-processes

• sea ice biogeochemistry

• carbon system

• higher trophic levels

Related project(s)

• NECCTON

• CMEMS ArcMFC

• sustainMare

• CDRMare

• MyOcean EU

Literature and Links

• Zenodo repository

• Benkort, D., Daewel, U., Heath, M., & Schrum, C. (2020). On the Role of Biogeochemical Coupling Between Sympagic and Pelagic Ecosystem Compartments for Primary and Secondary Production in the Barents Sea. In Frontiers in Environmental Science (Vol. 8, p. 217). https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2020.548013

• Daewel, U., & Schrum, C. (2013). Simulating long-term dynamics of the coupled North Sea and Baltic Sea ecosystem with ECOSMO II: Model description and validation. Journal of Marine Systems, 119–120, 30–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2013.03.008

• Daewel, U., & Schrum, C. (2017). Low frequency variability in North Sea and Baltic Sea identified through simulations with the 3-d coupled physical-biogeochemical model ECOSMO. Earth System Dynamics Discussions, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-2017-36

• Daewel, U., Schrum, C., & MacDonald, J. I. (2019). Towards end-to-end (E2E) modelling in a consistent NPZD-F modelling framework (ECOSMO E2E-v1.0): Application to the North Sea and Baltic Sea. Geoscientific Model Development, 12(5), 1765–1789. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-1765-2019

• Kossack, J., Mathis, M., Daewel, U., Liu, F., Demir, K. T., Thomas, H., & Schrum, C. (2024). Tidal impacts on air-sea CO 2 exchange on the North-West European shelf. (October), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1406896

• Yumruktepe, V. C., Samuelsen, A., & Daewel, U. (2022). ECOSMO II ( CHL ): a marine biogeochemical model for the North Atlantic and the Arctic. (May), 3901–3921. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-3901-2022

Tags

#optional #ocean #biogeochemistry #sea ice #carbon system #trophic level

Back to Optional components

FABM (Framework for Aquatic Biogeochemical Models)   GOLEM