The development of deep-ocean anoxia in a comprehensive ocean phosphorus model

DOI10.1007/S13137-023-00221-0zbMATH Open1520.92086arXiv2008.08377OpenAlexW3055960457MaRDI QIDQ6170705FDOQ6170705

Authors: J. G. Donohue, Brendan J. Florio, A. C. Fowler 

Publication date: 13 July 2023

Published in: GEM - International Journal on Geomathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyse a model of the phosphorus cycle in the ocean given by Slomp and Van Cappellen (2007, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-4-155-2007). This model contains four distinct oceanic basins and includes relevant parts of the water, carbon and oxygen cycles. We show that the model can essentially be solved analytically, and its behaviour completely understood without recourse to numerical methods. In particular, we show that, in the model, the carbon and phosphorus concentrations in the different ocean reservoirs are all slaved to the concentration of soluble reactive phosphorus in the deep ocean, which relaxes to an equilibrium on a time scale of 180,000 y, and we show that the deep ocean is either oxic or anoxic, depending on a critical parameter which we can determine explicitly. Finally, we examine how the value of this critical parameter depends on the physical parameters contained in the model. The presented methodology is based on tools from applied mathematics and can be used to reduce the complexity of other large, biogeochemical models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.08377

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zbMATH Keywords

mathematical modelmodel reductionphosphorus cycleocean anoxia event

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ecology (92D40) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

Cites Work

• Oceans on the edge of anoxia

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• Oceans on the edge of anoxia
• The ocean's global iron, phosphorus and silicon cycles: inverse modelling and novel diagnostics. (Abstract of thesis)

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