Contact us:
Michael Heath Email Address m.heath@strath.ac.uk
Developed by:
Tom Doherty, Jack Laverick, Michael Heath, Dougie Speirs
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 862428 (MISSION ATLANTIC). This output reflects only the author's view and the Research Executive Agency (REA) cannot be held responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein
Climate change:
Modelling the impact of climate change is more than adding some heat!
A warming (or cooling) climate will also affect ocean currents and nutrients flowing into the model region. The changes may also occur at different rates in the upper and lower layers of the water column.
StrathE2E uses climate projections from global ocean circulation models (run on super-computers) to simulate the impacts of climate change. By choosing a different time-period you are changing multiple environmental conditions together.
In the real world we expect the species composition of each of the model functional groups to adapt in response to warming or cooling. This isn’t dealt with in the app as the timespans this will happen over and the nature of the reassortments are unpredictable. We would need to represent this in the model by changes in biological parameters (which can be achieved using the R package).