Model Description

  • Yool, A., Popova, E.E. and Anderson, T.R. (2011). MEDUSA-1.0: a new intermediate complexity plankton ecosystem model for the global domain. Geoscientific Model Development 4, 381-417, doi: 10.5194/gmd-4-381-2 011.
  • Yool, A., Popova, E.E. and Anderson, T.R. (2013). MEDUSA-2.0: an intermediate complexity biogeochemical model of the marine carbon cycle for climate change and ocean acidification studies. Geoscientific Model Development 6, 1767-1811, doi: 10.5194/gmd-6-1767-2013.

 

UKESM1

  • Kwiatkowski, L., Yool, A., Allen, J.I., Anderson, T.R., Barciela, R., Buitenshuis, E.T., Butenschon, M., Enright, C., Halloran, P.R., Le Quere, C., de Mora, L., Racault, M.F., Sinha, B., Totterdell, I.J., Cox, P.M. (2014). iMarNet: an ocean biogeochemistry model intercomparison project within a common physical ocean modelling framework. Biogeosciences 11, 7291-7304, doi: 10.5194/bg-11-7291-2014.
  • de Mora, L., Yool, A., Palmieri, J., Sellar, A., Kuhlbrodt, T., Popova, E., Jones, C., and Allen, J. I.: BGC-val: a model- and grid-independent Python toolkit to evaluate marine biogeochemical models, Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 4215-4240, doi: 10.5194/gmd-11-4215-2018, 2018.
  • Sellar, A.A., Jones, C.G., Mulcahy, J.P., Tang, Y., Yool, A., et al.: UKESM1: Description and evaluation of the U.K. Earth System Model. J. Adv. Mod. Earth Syst., 11, 4513–4558, doi: 10.1029/2019MS001739, 2019.
  • Yool, A., Palmiéri, J., Jones, C.G., Sellar, A.A., de Mora, L., Kuhlbrodt, T., Popova, E.E., Mulcahy, J.P., Wiltshire, A., Rumbold, S.T., Stringer, M., Hill, R.S.R., Tang, Y., Walton, J., Blaker, A., Nurser, A.G.J., Coward, A.C., Hirschi, J., Woodward, S., Kelley, D.I., Ellis, R., Rumbold‐Jones, S. (2020). Spin‐up of UK Earth System Model 1 (UKESM1) for CMIP6. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12, e2019MS001933, doi: 10.1029/2019MS001933.
  • Kwiatkowski, L., et al.: Twenty-first century ocean warming, acidification, deoxygenation, and upper-ocean nutrient and primary production decline from CMIP6 model projections, Biogeosciences, 17, 3439–3470, doi: 10.5194/bg-17-3439-2020, 2020.
  • Séférian, R., Berthet, S., Yool, A., et al.: Tracking Improvement in Simulated Marine Biogeochemistry Between CMIP5 and CMIP6. Curr. Clim. Change Rep. 6, 95–119, doi: 10.1007/s40641-020-00160-0, 2020.
  • Yool, A., Palmiéri, J., Jones, C. G., de Mora, L., Kuhlbrodt, T., Popova, E. E., Nurser, A. J. G., Hirschi, J., Blaker, A. T., Coward, A. C., Blockley, E. W., and Sellar, A. A.: Evaluating the physical and biogeochemical state of the global ocean component of UKESM1 in CMIP6 historical simulations, Geosci. Model Dev., 14, 3437–3472, doi: 10.5194/gmd-14-3437-2021, 2021.
  • Bock, J., Michou, M., Nabat, P., Abe, M., Mulcahy, J., P.; Olivié, D.J.L., Schwinger, J., Suntharalingam, P., Tjiputra, J., van Hulten, M., Watanabe, M., Yool, A., and Séférian, R.: Evaluation of ocean dimethylsulfide concentration and emission in CMIP6 models. Biogeosciences, 18. 3823-3860, doi: 10.5194/bg-18-3823-2021, 2021.

 

BORIS

  • Kelly-Gerreyn, B.A., Martin, A.P., Bett, B.J., Anderson, T.R., Kaariainen, J.I., Main, C.E., Marcinko, C.J. and Yool, A.: Benthic biomass size spectra in shelf and deep-sea sediments. Biogeosciences 11, 6401-6416, doi: 10.5194/bg-11-6401-2014, 2014.
  • Yool, A., Martin, A.P., Anderson, T.R., Bett, B.J., Jones, D.O.B. and Ruhl, H.A.: Big in the benthos: Future change of seafloor community biomass in a global, body size-resolved model. Glob. Change Biol. 23, 3554-3566, doi: 10.1111/gcb.13680, 2017.

 

Applications

  • Popova, E.E., Yool, A., Coward, A.C., Aksenov, Y.K., Alderson, S.G., de Cuevas, B.A. and Anderson, T.R. (2010). Control of primary production in the Arctic by nutrients and light: insights from a high resolution ocean general circulation model. Biogeosciences 7, 3569-3591, doi: 10.5194/bg-7-3569-2010.
  • Cole, H., Henson, S., Martin, A. and Yool, A.:  Mind the gap: The impact of missing data on the calculation of phytoplankton phenology metrics.  J. Geophys. Res. 117, C08030, doi: 10.1029/ 2012JC008249, 2012.
  • Popova, E.E., Yool, A., Coward, A.C., Dupont, F., Deal, C., Elliott, S., Hunke, E., Jin, M.B., Steele, M. and Zhang, J.L.:  What controls primary production in the Arctic Ocean? Results from an intercomparison of five general circulation models with biogeochemistry.  J. Geophys. Res. 117, C00D12, doi: 10.1029/ 2011JC007112, 2012.
  • Yool, A., Popova, E.E., Coward, A.C., Bernie, D. and Anderson, T.R. (2013b). Climate change and ocean acidification impacts on lower trophic levels and the export of organic carbon to the deep ocean. Biogeosciences, 10, 5831-5854, doi: 10.5194/bg-10-5831-2013.
  • Henson, S., Cole, H., Beaulieu, C. and Yool, A. (2013).  The impact of global warming on seasonality of ocean primary production.  Biogeosciences, 10, 4357-4369, doi: 10.5194/bg-10-4357-2013.
  • Popova, E.E., Yool, A., Aksenov, Y., Coward, A.C., Anderson, T.R. (2014). Regional variability of acidification in the Arctic: a sea of contrasts. Biogeosciences 11, 293-308, doi: 10.5194/bg-11-293-2014.
  • Lawrence, J., Popova, E., Yool, A. and Srokosz, M.: On the vertical phytoplankton response to an ice-free Arctic Ocean. J. Geophys. Res. 120, 8571-8582, doi: 10.1002/2015JC011180, 2015.
  • Hemmings, J.C.P., Challenor, P.G. and Yool, A.: Mechanistic site-based emulation of a global ocean biogeochemical model (MEDUSA 1.0) for parametric analysis and calibration: an application of the Marine Model Optimization Testbed (MarMOT 1.1). Geoscientific Model Development, 8, 697-731, doi: 10.5194/gmd-8-697-2015, 2015.
  • Henson, S.A., Yool, A. and Sanders, R.: Variability in efficiency of particulate organic carbon export: A model study. Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles 29, 33-45, doi: 10.1002/2014GB004965, 2015.
  • Cole, H.S., Henson, S., Martin, A.P. and Yool, A.: Basin-wide mechanisms for spring bloom initiation: how typical is the North Atlantic? ICES J. Mar. Sci., 72, 2029-2040, doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsu239, 2015.
  • Tagliabue, A., Aumont, O., DeAth, R., Dunne, J.P., Dutkiewicz, S., Galbraith, E., Misumi, K., Moore, J.K., Ridgwell, A., Sherman, E., Stock, C., Vichi, M., Volker, C. and Yool, A.: How well do global ocean biogeochemistry models simulate dissolved iron distributions? Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles 30, 149-174, doi: 10.1002/2015GB005289, 2016.
  • Gubili, C., Ross, E., Billett, D.S.M., Yool, A., Tsairidis, C., Ruhl, H.A., Rogacheva, A., Masson, D., Tyler, P.A. and Hauton, C.: Species diversity in the cryptic abyssal holothurian Psychropotes longicauda (Echinodermata). Deep-Sea Res. Pt. II, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.04.003, 2016.
  • Steiner, N.S., Sou, T., Deal, C., Jackson, J.M., Jin, M., Popova, E., Williams, W. and Yool, A.: The future of the subsurface chlorophyll-a maximum in the Canada Basin-A model intercomparison. J. Geophys. Res. 121, 387-409, doi: 10.1002/2015JC011232, 2016.
  • Jin, M., Popova, E.E., Zhang, J.L., Ji, R.B., Pendleton, D., Varpe, O., Yool, A. and Lee, J.Y.: Ecosystem model intercomparison of under-ice and total primary production in the Arctic Ocean. J. Geophys. Res. 121, 934-948, doi: 10.1002/ 2015JC011183, 2016.
  • Lee, Y.J. et al.: Net primary productivity estimates and environmental variables in the Arctic Ocean: An assessment of coupled physical-biogeochemical models. J. Geophys. Res. 121, 8635-8669, doi: 10.1002/2016JC011993, 2016.
  • Beaulieu, C., Cole, H., Henson, S., Yool, A., Anderson, T., de Mora, L., Buitenhuis, E.T., Butenschon, M., Totterdell, I.J. and Allen, J.I.: Marine regime shifts in ocean biogeochemical models: a case study in the Gulf of Alaska. Biogeosciences 13, 4533-4553, doi: 10.5194/bg-13-4533-2016, 2016.
  • Popova, E., Yool, A., Byfield, V., Cochrane, K., Coward, A.C., Salim, S.S., Gasalla, M.A., Henson, S.A., Hobday, A.J., Pecl, G., Sauer, W., and Roberts, M.: From global to regional and back again: common climate stressors of marine ecosystems relevant for adaptation across five ocean warming hotspots. Global Change Biology, 22, 2038-2053, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13247, 2016.
  • Sanders, R.J. et al.: Controls over Ocean Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage (COMICS): Fieldwork, Synthesis, and Modeling Efforts. Frontiers in Marine Sci., 3, 136, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00136, 2016.
  • Couldrey, M.P., Oliver, K.I.C., Yool, A., Halloran, P.R. and Achterberg, E.P.: On which timescales do gas transfer velocities control North Atlantic CO2 flux variability? Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles 30, 787-802, doi: 10.1002/2015GB005267, 2016.
  • Magozzi, S., Yool, A., Zanden, H.B.V., Wunder, M.B. and Trueman, C.N.: Using ocean models to predict spatial and temporal variation in marine carbon isotopes. Ecosphere 8, doi: 10.1002/ecs2.1763, 2017.
  • Fernandes, J.A., Papathanasopoulou, E., Hattam, C., Queiros, A.M., Cheung, W.W.L., Yool, A., Artoli, Y., Pope, E.C., Flynn, K.J., Merino, G., Calosi, P., Beaumont, N., Austen, M.C., Widdicombe, S. and Barange, M.: Estimating the ecological, economic and social impacts of ocean acidification and warming on UK fisheries. Fish and Fisheries 18, 389-411, doi: 10.1111/faf.12183, 2017.
  • Barange, M., Butenschon, M., Yool, A., Beaumont, N., Fernandes, J.A., Martin, A.P. and Allen, J.I.: The Cost of Reducing the North Atlantic Ocean Biological Carbon Pump. Front. Mar. Sci. 10, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00290, 2017.
  • Yool, A., Popova, E.E. and Coward, A.C. (2015). Future change in ocean productivity: Is the Arctic the new Atlantic? J. Geophys. Res. 120, 7771-7790, doi: 10.1002/2015JC011167.
  • Bird, C.S., Veríssimo, A., et al.: A global perspective on the trophic geography of sharks. Nature Ecol. & Evol., 2, 299-305, doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0432-z, 2018.
  • Henson, S.A., Cole, H.S., Hopkins, J., Martin, A.P., Yool, A.: Detection of climate change‐driven trends in phytoplankton phenology. Glob Change Biol. 24, e101–e111, doi: 10.1111/gcb.13886, 2018.
  • Holt, J., Polton, J., Huthnance, J., Wakelin, S., O'Dea, E., Harle, J., Yool, A., Artoli, Y., Blackford, J. Siddorn, J. and Inall, M.: Climate‐driven change in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans can greatly reduce the circulation of the North Sea. Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 11,827–11,836, doi: 10.1029/2018GL078878, 2018.
  • Fernandes, J.A., et al.: Can we project changes in fish abundance and distribution in response to climate? Glob. Change Biol., 26, 3891–3905, doi: 10.1111/gcb.15081, 2020.
  • Aldama‐Campino, A., Fransner, F., Ödalen, M., Groeskamp, S., Yool, A., Döös, K., & Nycander, J.: Meridional ocean carbon transport. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 34, e2019GB006336, doi: 10.1029/2019GB006336, 2020.
  • Jacobs, Z.L., Jebri, F., Srokosz, M., Raitsos, D.E., Painter, S.C., Nencioli, F., Osuka, K., Samoilys, M., Sauer, W., Roberts, M., Taylor, S.F.W., Scott, L., Kizenga, H., and Popova E: A Major Ecosystem Shift in Coastal East African Waters During the 1997/98 Super El Niño as Detected Using Remote Sensing Data. Remote Sensing, 12, 3127, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12193127, 2020a.
  • Jacobs, Z.L., Jebri, F., Raitsos, D.E., Popova, E., Srokosz, M., Painter, S.C., Nencioli, M., Roberts, J., Kamau, M., Palmer, J., and Wihsgott: Shelf-break upwelling and productivity over the North Kenya Banks: The importance of large-scale ocean dynamics, Journal of Geophysical Research, 125, e2019JC015519, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015519, 2020b.
  • Jacobs, Z.L., Yool, A., Jebri, F., Srokosz, M., van Gennip, S., Kelly, S.J., Roberts, M., Sauer, W., Queirós, A.M., Osuka, K.E., Samoilys, M., Becker, A.E., and Popova, E.: Key climate change stressors of marine ecosystems along the path of the east african coastal current, Ocean & Coastal Management, 208, 105627, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2021.105627, 2021.
  • Jebri, F., Raitsos, D.E., Gittings, J.A., Jacobs, Z.L., Srokosz, M., Gornall, J., Sauer, W.H.H., Roberts, M.J., Popova, E.: Unravelling links between squid catch variations and biophysical mechanisms in South African waters, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 196, 105028, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2022.105028, 2022.
  • Asdar, S., Jacobs, Z.L., Popova, E., Noyon, M., Sauer, W., and Roberts, M.J.: Projected climate change impacts on the ecosystems of the Agulhas Bank, South Africa, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 105092, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2022.105092, 2022.