ATLANTIS
Atlantis (Fulton et al. 2007) is a so-called end-to-end model, which means that it includes more or less everything, from physics to fisheries. It has been tested and run actively in several places around the world, (nine model domains around Australia, and at the east and west coast of U.S.) and is at the moment being initialized areas around Hawaii, in the North Sea and, by IMR, in the Barents and Nordic Seas.
This is the first time it will be coupled with ice, and have the large seasonal variations in light as there are in the northern part of the model domain.
The model domain (fig. 1) is made of arbitrary polygons, which are defined based on information about the hydrography, depth and biology. There are 59 polygons, which covers an area of about 4x106 km2. In depth, the model has seven depth layers (0-50 m, 50-150 m, 150-250 m, 250-375 m, 375-500 m, 500-1000 m and 1000-1250). In areas where there…
