Interactive comment on “Modeling the dynamical sinking of biogenic particles in oceanic flow” by
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The manuscript "Modeling the dynamical sinking of biologenic particles in oceanic flow" presents an interesting study of particle sedimentation in realistic oceanic flows. In particular, it focuses in a simplified dynamics accounting for gravitational settling and also scrutinizes the effect of additional terms such as that due to Coriolis force (accounting for rotation) and inertial terms. The two latter effects are anyhow taken into account only perturbatively in Stokes as the authors mainly focus in the regime of small St number, which is shown (in Sect. 2, which is a nice review on particulate matter in the ocean) to be relevant to a wide range of sediments in the ocean. The manuscript presents numerical simulation of particles advected in Regional Ocean Modelling System simulating the Benguela region. In order to account for the unresolved scales, particles dynamics is also supplemented by a noise term with horizontal and vertical diffusivities appropriately chosen. The main results of the manuscript are as follows:
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