Box models are widely used to model biogeochemical systems.<ref name=Sarmiento1984>{{cite journal| author = Sarmiento, J.L.|author2=Toggweiler, J.R.| year = 1984| title = A new model for the role of the oceans in determining atmospheric P CO 2| journal = Nature| volume = 308| pages = 621–24| doi = 10.1038/308621a0| issue=5960 |bibcode = 1984Natur.308..621S |s2cid=4312683}}</ref><ref name=Bianchi2007>[[Thomas S. Bianchi|Bianchi, Thomas]] (2007) [https://books.google.com/books?id=3no8DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Biogeochemistry+of+Estuaries%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwixq4PYm_brAhXYILcAHUVzBf0QuwUwAHoECAIQBw#v=onepage&q=%22Biogeochemistry%20of%20Estuaries%22&f=false ''Biogeochemistry of Estuaries''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210925012739/https://books.google.com/books?id=3no8DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Biogeochemistry+of+Estuaries%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwixq4PYm_brAhXYILcAHUVzBf0QuwUwAHoECAIQBw#v=onepage&q=%22Biogeochemistry%20of%20Estuaries%22&f=false |date=2021-09-25 }} page 9, Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|9780195160826}}.</ref> Box models are simplified versions of complex systems, reducing them to boxes (or storage [[Thermodynamics#Instrumentation|reservoir]]s) for chemical materials, linked by material [[flux]]es (flows). Simple box models have a small number of boxes with properties, such as volume, that do not change with time. The boxes are assumed to behave as if they were mixed homogeneously.<ref name=Bianchi2007 /> These models are often used to derive analytical formulas describing the dynamics and steady-state abundance of the chemical species involved. | Box models are widely used to model biogeochemical systems.<ref name=Sarmiento1984>{{cite journal| author = Sarmiento, J.L.|author2=Toggweiler, J.R.| year = 1984| title = A new model for the role of the oceans in determining atmospheric P CO 2| journal = Nature| volume = 308| pages = 621–24| doi = 10.1038/308621a0| issue=5960 |bibcode = 1984Natur.308..621S |s2cid=4312683}}</ref><ref name=Bianchi2007>[[Thomas S. Bianchi|Bianchi, Thomas]] (2007) [https://books.google.com/books?id=3no8DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Biogeochemistry+of+Estuaries%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwixq4PYm_brAhXYILcAHUVzBf0QuwUwAHoECAIQBw#v=onepage&q=%22Biogeochemistry%20of%20Estuaries%22&f=false ''Biogeochemistry of Estuaries''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210925012739/https://books.google.com/books?id=3no8DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Biogeochemistry+of+Estuaries%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwixq4PYm_brAhXYILcAHUVzBf0QuwUwAHoECAIQBw#v=onepage&q=%22Biogeochemistry%20of%20Estuaries%22&f=false |date=2021-09-25 }} page 9, Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|9780195160826}}.</ref> Box models are simplified versions of complex systems, reducing them to boxes (or storage [[Thermodynamics#Instrumentation|reservoir]]s) for chemical materials, linked by material [[flux]]es (flows). Simple box models have a small number of boxes with properties, such as volume, that do not change with time. The boxes are assumed to behave as if they were mixed homogeneously.<ref name=Bianchi2007 /> These models are often used to derive analytical formulas describing the dynamics and steady-state abundance of the chemical species involved. |