It is offered with no claims of accuracy or suitability of purpose. To view the various .pdf files contained on this website, you need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have a copy, you can download it here. On a Macintosh, cntrl-click will act similarly. A central problem in large-scale biogeochemical modeling is determining how well biological models can simulate observed variability in different ocean environments.
Biogeochemical models are sensitive to the physical framework in which they are imbedded.
To make quantitative model intercomparisons, then, different models have to be run under the same physical conditions. For this reason few intercomparison studies have so far been carried out. 61.5 o E, the site of the WHOI mooring. In the following, we first describe the physical fields available at the website, providing both required and optional fields as downloadable files. These fields are obtained from the layer model described in McCreary et al.