We extend the 1-D plankton model of Eslinger et al. (2001) to the following 3-D PhEcoM, whose dynamics can be expressed by a set of controlling equations as follows: (For details, please refer to Wang et al. 2003; the flowchart for the nine compartments is illustrated in Fig. 1)

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Table: Parameters and values

References:
Wang, J., C. Deal, Z. Wan, M. Jin, N. Tanaka and M. Ikeda, 2003. User’s Guide for a Physical-Ecosystem Model (PhEcoM) in the Subpolar and Polar Oceans. International Arctic Research Center-Frontier Research System for Global Change, Tech. Rep. 02-02, 69 pp.

Jin, M. C.J. Deal, J. Wang, K.-H. Shin, N. Tanaka, T. Whitledge, S. H. Lee, R.R. Gradinger, 2006. Controls of the landfast ice-ocean ecosystem offshore Barrow, Alaska. Annals of Glaciology (iin press)

Jin, M., C.J. Deal, J. Wang, N. Tanaka, and M. Ikeda, 2006. Vertical mixing effects on the phytoplankton bloom in the southeastern Bering Sea mid-shelf. J. Geophys. Res., 111, C03002, doi:10.1029/2005JC002994.

Deal, C.J., M. Jin, J. Wang, N. Tanaka, M. Ikeda, T. Whitledge and T. Rho, 2006. Dynamics of plankton and nutrients in the Bering Sea: An ecosystem model study with special focus on the coccolithophore bloom and water column nitrification (submitted to Prog. Oceanogr.)