Closing the carbon cycle loop: Quantifying land-to-sea carbon fluxes

This project involves application of the ECCO-Darwin ecosystem model to study responses to riverine inputs to the oceans, and the (modelled) ocean optical impacts. The project team is investigating the sort of ocean color product that can be used to optimize the ECCO-Darwin simulations, and assessing the influence of model resolution in elucidating more complex ecosystem structure using the coastal fluxes as found from the LOAC/ECCO-Darwin solutions to explore the range of responses and magnitudes that might be observed from upcoming NASA missions such as PACE.