Application of the Spline Interpolation in Simulating the Distribution of Phytoplankton in a Marine NPZD Type Ecosystem Model

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Quanxin Zheng¹  Xiaona Li¹  Xianqing Lv¹ 

[1] Department of Physical Oceanography, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China;

关键词: NPZD model;    phytoplankton simulation;    spline interpolation;    Cressman interpolation;    adjoint method;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijerph16152664

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The available observations for the model are usually sparse and uneven. The application of interpolation methods help researchers obtain an approximate form of the original data. A marine nutrient, phytoplankton, zooplankton and detritus (NPZD) type ecosystem model is applied to simulate the distribution of phytoplankton combined with the spline interpolation (SI) and the Cressman interpolation (CI). In the idealized twin experiments, the performance of these two interpolation methods is validated through the analysis of several quantitative metrics, which show the minor error and high efficiency when using the SI. Namely, the given distributions can be better inverted with the SI. The actual distribution of phytoplankton in the Bohai Sea is interpolated in the practical experiment, where a satisfactory simulation result is obtained by the model with the SI. The model experiments and results verify the feasibility and effectiveness of SI.

【 授权许可】

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