Online Coupled Atmosphere and Ocean Model for Mercury
One drawback of the previous models for mercury air-sea exchange is that the atmosphere and the ocean are not "talking" with each other. Therefore, they have issues to capture the feedback and interactions among atmosphere, marine boundary layer, ocean mixed layer, and subsurface ocean. They can not thus simulate the influence of short time scale variabilities in wind speed and ocean mixed layer depth change. I'm currently working on online coupling of atmosphere (GEOS-Chem) and ocean (MITgcm). Here are some prelimilary resuts:
Hourly Atmospheric Elemental Mercury Concentrations in the Marine Boundary Layer
Hourly Atmospheric Deposition Fluxes
Hourly Ocean Evasion Fluxes
MITgcm-Hg Ocean Mercury Model
This model includes the mercury cyle in the global ocean based on the MITgcm model. It simulates the transport, biogeochemical transformation, partitioning, air-sea exchange, and particle sinking processes of both inorganic mercury and methylmercury. It also includes the bioaccumulation and biomagnification of methylmercury in the marine plankton foodweb. For more details of this model, please refer to my previous publications: [Zhang et al. 2015]; [Zhang et al., 2014]; [Zhang et al., 2014].
The model results are available upon request. The following figures show the modeled concentrations in the surface ocean for multiple mercury chemical species:
Daily Mercury Concentrations at top 10m of global ocean by MITgcm-Hg Model
Also, the concentrations in different phytoplankton types (Note, not based on wet or dry weight of cells, but the mass of MeHg in phytoplankton cells per unit volume of seawater):
