Parameter sensitivity and identifiability for a biogeochemical model of hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

ABSTRACT: Local sensitivity analyses and identifiable parameter subsets were used to describe numerical constraints of a hypoxia model for bottom waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico. The sensitivity of state variables differed considerably with parameter changes, although most variables were responsive to changes in parameters that influenced planktonic growth rates and less sensitive to physical or chemical parameters. Variation in sensitivity had a direct correspondence with identifiability, such that only small subsets of the complete parameter set had unique effects on the model output. Selecting parameters by decreasing sensitivity demonstrated that only eight of 51 total parameters had a sufficiently unique effect on model output for accurate calibration. As a result, parameter selection heu

SUBMITTER: Beck MW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6260961 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature