r are included,
as well as the dynamic of the microbial loop, which is known to
play an important role in Mediterranean Sea (Thingstad and
Rassoulzadegan, 1995). The physical and biogeochemical models
are coupled through a modified version of the OPA transport model
(Foujols et al., 2000), named OPATM-BFM (OPA Transport Model–
Biological Flux Model, Lazzari et al., 2012) now embedded in the
MyOcean/Copernicus infrastructure and routinely used to produce
short term forecast of the Mediterranean Sea since 2007 (