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Published in final edited form as: J Geophys Res Oceans. 2016 Nov 14;121(12):8635–8669. doi: 10.1002/2016JC011993

Table 1.

A Brief Description of Participating Models and Output Variables

												Sea Ice Biology/River		Model Output Variables
Model	Name	Domain/Type	Horizontal Resolution (km)	Vertical Levels	Vertical Mixing	Atmospheric Forcing	Sea Ice	Nutrients	# of Phyto plankton Classes	# of Zooplankton Classes	# of Detritus	Nutrients/Pelagic-Benthic Coupling	Simulation Period	Integrated NPP	NPP (0–100 m)	no₃ (0–100 m)	Z_eu (1%)	Sea Ice	MLD
1	HYCOM-NORWECOM	Regional	10–16.5	28	GISS	ERA-Interim reanalysis	Hunke and Dukowicz [1997]	N, P, Si	2	2	3	N/Y/N	1997–2011	•	•	•	•	•	•
2	NEMO-PISCES	Global	10–16	75	TKE	ERA-Interim reanalysis	LIM2	N, P, Si, Fe	2	2	3	N/Y/Y	1998–2014	•	•	•	•	•
3	PlankTOM5.3	Global	0.13–192	30	TKE	NCEP reanalysis	LIM2	N, Si, Fe	3	2	7	N/Y/N	1956–2013	•	•	•		•
4	PlankTOMIO	Global	0.13–192	30	TKE	NCEP reanalysis	LIM2	N, P, Si, Fe	6	3	7	N/Y/N	1948–2013	•	•	•		•
5	MOM-SIS-COBALT	Global	25–111	50	KPP	CORE2	GFDL-SIS	N, P, Si, Fe	3	3	1	N/Y/Y	1948–2007	•	•	•			•
6	MOM-S IS-TOPAZ	Global	25–111	50	KPP	CORE2	GFDL-SIS	N, P, Si, Fe, NH₄	3	1	7	N/Y/Y	1948–2007	•	•	•	•	•	•
7	SINMOD	Regional	20	25	Based on the Richardson Number	ERA-1 nterim reanalysis	Hibler [197]; Hunke and Dukowicz [1997]	N, Si	2	2	2	N/Y/Y	1979–2014	•	•	•	•	•	•
8	NorESM-OC	Global	18–65	53	TKE	CORE2	CICE4	N, P, Si, Fe	1	1	3	N/N//N	1850–2012	•	•	•		•	•
9	BIOMAS	Regional	3–70	30	KPP	NCEP reanalysis	Thickness and enthalpy distribution	N, Si	2	3	2	Y/N/N	1971–2015	•	•	•		•	•
10	NEMO-MEDUSA	Global	6.8–15.4	64	TKE	DFS4.1 reanalysis	LIM2	N, Si, Fe	2	2	1	N/N/N	1988–2006	•	•	•		•	•
11	NEMO-ERSEM (xhonp)	Global	25–68	75	TKE	CORE2	CICE	N, P, Si, Fe	4	3	6	N/N/Y	1890–2007	•	•	•	•	•	•
12	NEMO-ERSEM (xhonc)	Global	25–68	75	TKE	CORE2	CICE	N, P, Si, Fe	4	3	6	N/N/Y	1890–2007	•	•	•	•	•	•
13	PELAGOS	Global	120–160	30	TKE	ERA-Interim reanalysis	LIM2	N, P, Si, Fe	3	3	1	N/Y/N	1988–2010	•	•	•	•	•	•
14	IARC POP-CICE	Global	30–45	40	KPP	CORE2	CICE 5.0	N, P, Si, Fe	3	1	1	Y/N/N	1958–2009	•	•	•		•	•
15	NEMO/PISCES	Global	63–131	31	TKE	DFS5.2 reanalysis	LIM2	N, P, Si, Fe	2	2	2	N/Y/Y	1979–2010	•	•		•	•
16	NEMO/PISCES	Global	32	46	TKE	CORE2 + NCEP/DOE AMIP-II	LIM3	N, P, Si, Fe	2	2	2	N/Y/N	2002–2011	•	•			•
17	NEMO-GELATO-PISCES	Global	40–70	42	TKE	NCEP reanalysis	GELAT05	N, P, Si, Fe	2	2	2	N/Y/Y	1948–2013	•	•	•	•	•	•
18	MITgcm	Regional	18	50	KPP	JRA25 reanalysis	Hibler [1979]	N	2	2	2	N/Y/N	1979–2012	•	•	•		•	•
19	NorESM	Global/ESM	18–65	53	TKE	CMIP5 + RCP8.5	CICE4	N, P, Si, Fe	1	1	3	N/N/N	1850–2012	•	•	•		•	•
20	GISS-E2-R-CC	Global/ESM	100–125	32	KPP	20th century climate forcing	Sea ice modelE2	N, Si, Fe	4	1	3	N/N/N	1850–2010	•		•		•	•
21	MPI-ESM (MPIOM-HAMOCC)	Global/ESM	15–65	40	Pacanowski and Philander [1981] +wind mixing	CMIP5 + RCP4.5	Notz et al. [2013]	N, P, Si, Fe	1	1	3	N/N/Y	1850–2012	•