TOP light scaling under seaice create anomalous blooms
Testing the light-Chl coupling in MEDUSA alongside the other light attenuation scheme, It appears that the biology is doing abnormally well under sea-ice in the Arctic, except in time of perpetual night (i.e: November to mid-January). As soon as QSR
is slightly rising, the phytoplankton blooms.
It seems this come from the light module trcopt
, where the sea-ice impact on light is done this way :
! Photosynthetically Available Radiation (PAR)
! --------------------------------------------
DO_2D( 0, 0, 0, 0 )
zqsr_corr(ji,jj) = parsw(ji,jj) * qsr(ji,jj) / ( 1.-fr_i(ji,jj) + rtrn )
END_2D
!
CALL trc_opt_par( kt, zqsr_corr, ze1, ze2, ze3 )
!
The same mistake is done in PISCES' p4zopt
A simple solution would be to multiply instead of dividing by the ice fraction :
DO_2D( 0, 0, 0, 0 )
zqsr_corr(ji,jj) = parsw(ji,jj) * qsr(ji,jj) * ( 1.-fr_i(ji,jj) + rtrn )
END_2D