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Self-Assembling Ecosystem Model in ECCO2 CS510 Environment

78 Phytoplankton types, 2 grazers, cycles of N, P, Fe, Si, in ECCO2 cubed-sphere 510 physical environment (~18km grid size globally).

MP4 animation here (about 54MB).

Movie depicts diagnostic Chl-a in surface 10m daily in simulation of 1997 (spin up initialized 1992). Simplified, Geider-based equilibrium Chl:C - assumption of rapid acclimation leads to some "flickering" in response to daily cycle and passage of clouds.

Oliver Jahn, Chris Hill, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Mick Follows