Model results and observational validation data for "Global ecological and biogeochemical impacts of pelagic tunicates." Model outputs for 1) the COBALTv2 control simulation, 2) the GZ-COBALT base simulation, and the five sensitivity experiments in the following files: Model grid and area fields ocean_annual_static.nc ocean_static.nc Monthly ocean surface fields Nitrate, phosphate, silica, chlorophyll [expt]_ocean_cobalt_omip_sfc.1988-2007.clim.tar.gz Monthly water column integrated fields primary production [expt]_ocean_cobalt_omip_2d.1988-2007.clim.tar.gz Monthly 100-m integrated tracer fields Small and large phytoplankton, diazotrophs, small, medium, and large zooplankton, small and large tunicate, bacteria Dissolved organic nitrogen Nitrogen detritus [expt]_ocean_cobalt_tracers_int.1988-2007.clim.tar.gz Monthly 100-m integrated fluxes Production of: Small and large phytoplankton, diazotrophs, small, medium, and large zooplankton, small and large tunicate, bacteria Loss to zooplankton from: Small and large phytoplankton, diazotrophs, bacteria, small and medium zooplankton, small and large tunicates Aggregation loss from: Small and large phytoplankton, large tunicates Injestion by: Small, medium, and large zooplankton, small and large tunicates, higher predators Detritus production by: Small, medium, and large zooplankton, small and large tunicates, higher predators [expt]_ocean_cobalt_fluxes_int_1988-2007.clim.tar.gz Monthly detritus fluxes past 100-m: [expt]_ocean_cobalt_fdet_100.1988-2007.clim.tar.gz Annual 3-D tracers: Phytoplankton and zooplankton carbon Mesozooplankton and tunicate carbon [expt]_ocean_cobalt_omip_tracers_year_z_1988-2007.nc Observational data compilation in 1-degree grid cells: Data compilation of small tunicates (appendicularians, mg C m-3) and large tunicates (thaliaceans, mg C m-3) as described in the Luo et al. publication. Mesozooplankton from the COPEPOD carbon biomass dataset in mg C m-3 (Moriarty and O'Brien 2012). The chlorophyll growing season mean (from GlobColour data product, blended in the Southern Ocean with Johnson et al. 2013), in units of mg Chl m-3. The tunicate column is a simple addition of the appendicularian + thaliacean column, assuming missing values are zero (use with caution). Please note that these values do not incorporate the 10x biomass adjustment from net-based sampling; this must be added in afterwards. ObsCompilation_SmLgTunicates_Mesozooplankton.csv See the below publication for more details: Luo, Jessica Y., Stock, C. A., Henschke, N., Dunne, J. P., O'Brien, T. D., Global ecological and biogeochemical impacts of pelagic tunicates. Progress in Oceanography. (2022) doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2022.102822