Abstract:
A marine physical biogeochemical model simulation was performed with the model MOM-ERGOM for the years 2000 to 2014 covering the Baltic Sea. Previously, MOM-ERGOM had been initialized for several decades. The model output has been validated with measurement data of the "IOW Baltic Monitoring and long-term data program" (https://www.io-warnemuende.de/iowdb.html) and from the HELCOM database (http://ocean.ices.dk/helcom/Helcom.aspx). A publication is in preparation. The years 2003 to 2014 are available here.
The work was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI, FKZ 50EW1601, https://www.io-warnemuende.de/meramo-en.html). The simulation was performed at the North-German Supercomputing Alliance (HLRN, project id: mvk00054, zulassung.hlrn.de/kurzbeschreibungen/mvk00054.pdf).
The model output data were processed and evaluated on servers provided by the project 'PROSO - Prozesse von Spurenstoffen in der Ostsee' (FKZ 03F0779A).
The model simulation was forced by coastDat2 COSMO-CLM data (http://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/coastDat-2_COSMO-CLM). Atmospheric nitrogen deposition data of 0.1° x 0.1° spatial resolution were taken from the 2018 reporting of the European Measurement and Evaluation Programme (EMEP) as presented in EMEP (2018, url: http://emep.int/publ/reports/2018/EMEP_Status_Report_1_2018.pdf) and available from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (2018, http://thredds.met.no/thredds/catalog/data/EMEP/2018_Reporting/catalog.html).
Nitrogen from atmospheric deposition of nitrogen from livestock/agricultural emissions (estimated, see documentation) and from all emission sectors has been tagged in the model simulation according to a method by Menésguen et al. (2006, http://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2006.51.1_part_2.0591). Therefore, all nitrogen-containing model variables exist three times in the output: once as regular variables and once per tagged nitrogen source (total atmospheric and agriculturally-related).
