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Fluctuations : A Task Package for the Physicists

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Towards a Model of Ocean Biogeochemical Processes

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This paper aims to give a list of questions that the biogeochemical modelling community will pose for physicists in the context of the design and development of a “Model of Ocean Biogeochemical Processes”. It has no pretensions to being all-encompassing, rather it surveys the physical topics we see as the most relevant to the global ocean flux study and which as a whole address all time and space scales. Oceanographic phenomena are expressed over scales ranging across many orders of magnitude, from seconds to millennia, and from microns to megameters (see Table 1 below), and variation is observed on all scales.

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  1. Institut für Meereskunde, Universität Hamburg, Troplowitzstr. 7, 2000, Hamburg 54, Germany

    H. Baumert

  2. Institute for Remote Sensing Applications, Joint Research Center, Commission of the European Communities, I-21020, Ispra (VA), Italy

    W. Schrimpf

  3. Linaere College, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3JA, UK

    J. D. Woods

  4. UMR39, GRGS/CNRS, 18 Avenue E. Belin, 31055, Toulouse Cedex, France

    Véronique C. Garçon

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Baumert, H., Schrimpf, W., Woods, J.D., Garçon, V.C. (1993). Fluctuations : A Task Package for the Physicists. In: Evans, G.T., Fasham, M.J.R. (eds) Towards a Model of Ocean Biogeochemical Processes. NATO ASI Series, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84602-1_3

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