High-resolution modelling of physical-biogeochemical interactions in the tropical ocean: determination of potential future trends (A02)

• Subject Area: Oceanography
• Term: from 2008 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 27542298

The high-resolution coupled biogeochemistry-circulation model hierarchy developed in the previous phases will be utilised to aid the interpretation and synthesis of local observations in the eastern tropical Pacific and Atlantic Ocean, to determine the role of physical and biogeochemical processes in decadal changes of the tropical oxygen minimum zones, and to obtain refined projections of their 21st-century trends that may be expected as a consequence of anthropogenic climate change.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 754: Climate - Biogeochemistry Interactions in the Tropical Ocean
• Applicant Institution: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
• Co-Applicant Institution: GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Claus Böning; Professor Dr. Andreas Oschlies