DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5062110
title: Supporting model output for article "Assessing the potential impact of river chemistry on Arctic coastal production"

description: The following is a summary of processed model output data from a series of HiLAT model runs.<br> A description of the model runs and visualization of model output and analysis can be found in the<br> accompanying manuscript. <br> Gibson G. A., Elliott, S., Piliouras, A. Clement Kinney, J., Jeffery, N. (2022) Assessing the potential<br> impact of river nitrate on coastal production in the Arctic. Frontiers in Marine Science: Coastal Ocean<br> Processes. <br> This work was supported by the Regional and Global Model Analysis (RGMA) program of the US<br> Department of Energy’s Office of Science as a contribution to the HiLAT project. Additional support for<br> this project was provided by the National Science Foundation, under award #173886.<br> <strong>River Nutrient Forcing</strong> The experiments involved modifying the nutrient concentrations in the river nutrient forcing files.<br> The river nutrient files are specified during model setup. For use in the HiLAT model, GNEWS annual<br> river nutrient inputs were partitioned into twelve monthly forcing values. The nearest ocean grid point<br> to each of the GNEWS river mouth locations was identified and then, as with the runoff, the nutrient<br> inputs for each river basin were spatially mapped to surface ocean model grid cells, which are 10 meters<br> thick, such that the spatial pattern of river nutrient dispersion follows river water inputs to the oceans. The experiments were:<br> i) The baseline model simulation: The 12 monthly values for each grid cell were constant in time.<br> <strong>river_nutrients_GNEWS2000_gx1v6.nc</strong><br> ii) an experiment in which baseline Arctic River Nitrogen (NO 3 and NH 4 ) concentrations were doubled.<br> <strong>river_nutrients_GNEWS2000_gx1v6_x2Arctic.nc</strong><br> iii) an experiment in which baseline Arctic River Nitrogen (DON and DIN) concentrations were scaled to<br> the river volume discharge contained in <strong>runoff.daitren.iaf.20120419.nc</strong><br> <strong>river_nutrients_GNEWS2000_gx1v6_scaled_climatology.nc</strong><br> iv) an experiment in which the scaled river nutrient discharge (iii) was shifted earlier by two months.<br> <strong>river_nutrients_GNEWS2000_gx1v6_shifted2m_climatology.nc</strong><br> v) an experiment in which the scaled river nutrient discharge (iii) was shifted earlier by a month and<br> doubled in concentration.<br> <strong>river_nutrients_GNEWS2000_gx1v6_shifted_climatology_x2.nc</strong> River nutrient fluxes are in units of nmol/cm2/s<br> Only concentrations within the domain TLONG&gt;=60 &TLONG &lt;=340 & TLAT &gt;=60 were modified in<br> concentration/timing. <br> Variables of interest:<br> din_riv_flux: dissolved inorganic nitrogen river flux<br> don_riv_flux: dissolved organic nitrogen river flux Each of the experiments is described in detail in Gibson et al (2022). ---------------------------------------------<br> There are multiple versions of most output file types, corresponding to the river nutrient experiments that<br> were conducted. <br> Many variables in the output files are <strong>regional averages</strong> where model regions are indicated by a number<br> *note - for aesthetics, the numbering used in the model output files differs slightly from the numbering<br> used in the accompanying manuscript. The numbers assigned in the analysis files aligns with the numbers<br> assigned to regions within the region mask provided in the grid file. <strong>Grid File/region masks</strong><br> gx1v6_polar_mask_coast.5.22.20c.nc This file is an updated version of the standard grid file. It has been<br> updated to include the addition of a coastal Arctic region variable ‘Arctic_Coast_Mask’ which indicates<br> which grid cells are in the coastal regions used in the analysis and the Arctic_Region variable which<br> indicates which grid cells are in the broader regions. <br> Variables contained in this file are:<br> Arctic_Coast_Mask: contains values 0-9 indicating which (if any) coastal region a grid cell is in<br> Arctic_Region Mask: contains values 0-11 indicating which (if any) region a grid cell is in <br> TLAT: latitude of grid cell<br> TLONG: longitude of grid cell<br> TAREA: Area of grid cell<br> HT: Bathymetry of grid cell <strong>Arctic_Region (seas)</strong> <strong>Arctic_Coast_Mask </strong><strong>(coast)</strong> <strong>Bering Sea</strong> 1 1 <strong>Chukchi Sea</strong> 2 2 <strong>East Siberian Sea</strong> 3 3 <strong>Laptev Sea</strong> 4 4 <strong>Beaufort Sea</strong> 5 5 <strong>Barents Sea</strong> 6 6 <strong>Canadian Basin</strong> 7 - <strong>Eurasian Basin</strong> 8 - <strong>Nordic Seas</strong> 9 7 <strong>Labrador Sea</strong> 10 8 <strong>Kara Sea</strong> 11 9 -------------- Model outputs that were analyzed in the manuscript are contained in three different kinds of output file.<br> For each file type a file exists for each river nutrient experiment. The following series of files contains variables related to the particulate organic carbon flux to the<br> sediment, demineralization and remineralization rates.<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-BASELINE-coast_region-sed-137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-month-shiftx2-coast_region-sed-137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-2xArcticN-coast_region-sed-137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-mon-clim-coast_region-sed-137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-2mon-shift-coast_region-sed-137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv_2XDC-coast_region-sed-137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-BASELINE-seas_region-sed-137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-month-shiftx2-seas_region-sed-137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-2xArcticN-seas_region-sed-137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-mon-clim-seas_region-sed-137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-2mon-shift-seas_region-sed-137-157.nc <br> Variables contained in these are:<br> POCTOSED_AVG* : Particulate organic carbon flux to sediment<br> PONTOSED_AVG* : Particulate organic nitrogen flux to sediment<br> SEDDENITRIF_AVG* : Sediment denitrification rate<br> POC_PROD_AVG* : Production of Particulate organic carbon<br> POC_FLUX_AVG* : Particulate organic carbon flux into layer/cell<br> DON_REMIN_AVG* : Dissolved Organic Nitrogen remineralization rate<br> DOC_REMIN_AVG* : Dissolved Organic Carbon remineralization rate<br> DIAT_N_LIM_AVG* : Diatom nitrogen limitation<br> DIAT_N_LIM_AVG* : Diatom nitrogen limitation<br> DIAT_P_LIM_AVG* : Diatom phosphorous limitation<br> DIAT_FE_LIM_AVG* : Diatom iron limitation<br> DIAT_LIGHT_LIM_AVG*: Diatom light limitation<br> SP_N_LIM_AVG* : Small phytoplankton nitrogen limitation<br> SP_P_LIM_AVG* : Small phytoplankton phosphorous limitation<br> SP_FE_LIM_AVG* : Small phytoplankton iron limitation<br> SP_LIGHT_LIM_AVG* : Small phytoplankton light limitation<br> Where * represents the coastal region number.<br> ---------------------------------------- <br> The following series of files contains primary production for the small and large phytoplankton groups<br> and the zooplankton biomass. Coastal regional averages – based on regions marked in the Arctic_Coast_Mask variable<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_runoff-2xArcticN-region-prod-ACM-137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-mon-clim-region-prod-ACM-137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-month-shiftx2-region-prod-ACM-137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_riv-BASELINE-region-prod-ACM-137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-2mon-shift-region-prod-ACM-137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-2XDC-region-prod-ACM-137-157.nc Regional seas averages – based on regions marked in the Arctic_Region variable<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_runoff-2xArcticN-region-prod-seas-137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-mon-clim-region-prod-seas-137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-month-shiftx2-region-prod-seas-137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_riv-BASELINE-region-prod-seas-137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-2mon-shift-region-prod-seas-137-157.nc Variables contained in these files are:<br> TAREA_SUM* – total area of the region<br> PPSP_REGSUM* – sum of primary production by small phytoplankton in a region<br> PPDIAT_REGSUM*– sum of primary production by diatoms in a region<br> ZOOC_AVG*– sum of zooplankton biomass in a region ----------------------------------------<br> The following series of files contains ice associated variables and mixed layer nutrients bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut_riv-2xArcticN-ice_coastal-137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-mon-clim-ice_coastal -137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-month-shiftx2-ice_coastal -137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-BASELINE-ice_coastal -137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-2mon-shift-ice_coastal -137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-2XDC-ice_coastal -137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-2xArcticN-ice_seas-137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-mon-clim-ice_seas -137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-month-shiftx2-ice_seas -137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-BASELINE-ice_seas -137-157.nc<br> bgc_T62_gx1GIF_nut-riv-2mon-shift-ice_seas-137-157.nc HI_REGAVG* : Regional averaged ice depth<br> HS_REGAVG* : Regional averaged snow depth<br> ICEAREA_REGSUM* : Regional sum ice area<br> ICEVOL_REGSUM*: Regional sum volume area<br> MLAM_REGAVG* : Regional average ammonium concentration in mixed layer<br> MLNIT_REGAVG* : Regional average nitrate concentration in mixed layer<br> PP_REGAVG* : Regional average primary production (ice algae)<br> PP_REGSUM* : Regional total primary production (ice algae)<br> TAREA_SUM* : Total area of region<br> TIME : time