Modeling across the Disciplines

A great future challenge for modeling the Baltic Sea ecosystem is related to the task of conceptual and numerical ecosystem model formulation. Before a numerical ecosystem model can be implemented and simulations are carried out, a conceptual view on the ecosystem must be developed and formulated. This includes the determination of the major links in the biogeochemical cycles, identification of the leading players in these cycles, and to find estimates for their activity in the transport and transformation of matter. This requires accomplishing the difficult task of a far-reaching simplification of a complex conceptual ecosystem model, the formulation as mathematical equations and the numerical implementation of suitable solution methods. Little is known about many model parameters. 

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