Modular Coupling
The overarching goal our research topic "Modular Coupling" is to build a common reseach and decision support infrastructure for coastal research community, integrating physical, biological, chemical and geological simulation tools in an exchangeable way. This topic is represented by the Modular System for Shelves and Coasts (MOSSCO) project.
MOSSCO supports synoptic studies of coastal and shelf seas including their interfaces to adjacent Earth-system components, such as sediment, atmosphere, rivers and the open ocean. Benefits of this approach are most apparent for the description of cohesive sediments where strong interactions between the benthic and pelagic compartment and between hydrodynamic, biogeochemical (BGC), ecological and sedimentary processes are largely unresolved within state-of-the-art models.
MOSSCO is applied to cohesive sediment dynamics and transport problems on two spatial coastal scales: In an application to the entire German North Sea and Baltic Sea, we will demonstrate the modular concept of MOSSCO, study sediment fluxes along the coast, and support other FONA projects. In a study of two estuaries, we will focus on the impact of maintenance dredging and channel deepening on water quality and ecosystem services, including potential effects of climate change. Using a webGIS frontend of the modular system, the estuarine results will be evaluated for their compliance to coastal policies.
About MOSSCO
Funding
MOSSCO is funded primarly by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) in the frame of its Coastal research agenda North and Baltic Sea (KüNO) within the Research Agenda for Sustainability (FONA).
Collaboration
MOSSCO is a cooperative effort of three participating institutes: (1) Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (coordinating), HZG; (2) Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde,
IOW; and (3) German Federal Waterways Authority BAW
We work closely with the General Estuarine Transport Model (GETM) and the General Ocean Turbulence Model (GOTM) communities. Our biological and ecological models make extensive use of the Framwork for Aquatic Biogeochemical Models (FABM).
Publications
- Slavik, K., Lemmen, C., Zhang, W., Kerimoglu, O., Klingbeil, K., Wirtz, K. W. (in review). The large scale impact of offshore windfarm structures on pelagic primary production in the southern North Sea. Hydrobiologia. [url=http://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02386][/url]
- Lemmen, C., Hofmeister, R., Klingbeil, K., Nasermoaddeli, M. H., Kerimoglu, O., Burchard, H., Kösters, F., and Wirtz, K. W. (2018): Modular System for Shelves and Coasts (MOSSCO v1.0) – a flexible and multi-component framework for coupled coastal ocean ecosystem modelling, Geosci. Model Dev., https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2017-138
- C. Lemmen, R. Hofmeister, K. Klingbeil, M.H. Nasermoaddeli (2017): Modular System for Shelves and Coasts (MOSSCO v1.0.1), Open source software, doi:10.5281/zenodo.806770
- Nasermoaddeli, M. H., Lemmen, C., Stigge, G, Kerimoglu, O, Burchard, H, Klingbeil, K., Hofmeister, R., Kreus, M., Wirtz, K. W. and Kösters, F., (2017): A model study on the large-scale effect of macrofauna on the suspended sediment concentration in a shallow shelf sea Estuarine, Coastal, Shelf Science, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2017.11.002
- R. Hofmeister, C. Lemmen, O. Kerimoglu & K. Wirtz, M.H. Nasermoaddeli (2014) The Predominant Processes Controlling Vertical Nutrient and Suspended Matter Fluxes across Domains - Using the New MOSSCO System from Coastal Sea Sediments up to the Atmosphere. In: Proc. Int. Conference on Hydroengineering, ed. Lehfeldt & Kopmann, Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau, Hamburg, pp 890-896
- M. H. Nasermoaddeli, F. Kösters, C. Lemmen, K.W. Wirtz (2014): First Results of Modelling Benthos Influence on Sediment Entrainment Using a Generic Approach within the MOSSCO Framework, In: Proc. Int. Conference on Hydroengineering, ed. Lehfeldt & Kopmann, Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau, Hamburg
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