Planet-in-a-Bottle
story by Helen Hill
Here we look at work by Sai Ravela, John Marshall, Chris Hill, Andrew Wong and Scott Stransky in which they use MITgcm to provide the virtual analogue for a fluid lab experiment in the physical laboratory, as part of an effort to demonstrate how to achieve real-time model-data synthesis, using measurements from a robotically controlled automated sensor system.
Figure 1. The components of the system: The laboratory observatory consists of a physical system: a rotating table on which a tank, camera and control system for illumination are mounted. The computational part consists of a measurement system for velocimetry, a numerical model (MITgcm), and an assimilation system.
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