GMAO OCEAN BIOLOGY AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELING
The NASA Ocean Biogeochemical Model (NOBM) is a fully coupled general circulation/biogeochemical/radiative model of the global oceans. THE NOBM was developed by GMAO and is in the process of being coupled to the complex and interactive GEOS-5 climate systems. As currently configured, NOBM is coupled with the GMAO's Poseidon ocean general circulation model, which requires external forcing fields to run. The model is forced by GMAO's MERRA Reanalysis. The model contains 4 explicit phytoplankton taxonomic groups: diatoms, cyanobacteria, chlorophytes, and coccolithophores, to represent the large scale biodiversity of the global oceans. NOBM assimilates SeaWiFS and MODIS total chlorophyll data.
