MITgcm

Anthropogenic CO2 transport in the Southern Ocean.

Helen Hill — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:09:21 +0000

Taka Ito, Molly Woloszyn and Matt Mazloff have been studying anthropogenic CO₂ transport in the Southern Ocean. Using MITgcm's adjoint and offline capabilities, the team find a clear correlation between the pattern of carbon uptake and oceanic vertical exchange in strong support of wind-driven primary regulation of Southern Ocean ACO2 transport...

Ecological Control of Subtropical Nutrient Concentrations

Helen Hill — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:12:38 +0000

In this article we spotlight recent work by Darwin Project team members Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Mick Follows and Jason Bragg, who have been examining the utility of resource control theory to interpret the relationships between organisms and resources in a global coupled physical-biogeochemistry-ecosystem model built around MITgcm...

2009 research roundup

Helen Hill — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:49:38 +0000

To round off the year we have collected a sample of 2009 research articles that involved MITgcm in some way. Lots of interesting work ranging from gas-giant planets to laboratory scale rotating fluid tanks. Take a look...

Overturning Sensitivity in an Eddying Ocean Model

Helen Hill — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:28:44 +0000

Work by Christopher Wolfe and Paola Cessi at UCSD, in which they investigate the equilibrium response of an eddy-resolving version of MITgcm to variations in the external parameters of diffusivity, wind forcing and geometry, with particular attention to the meridional overturning circulation (MOC) and deep stratification...

Planet-in-a-Bottle

Helen Hill — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:35:18 +0000

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. This is part of an effort to demonstrate how to achieve real-time model-data synthesis, using measurements from a roboticaly controlled automated sensor system...

Lake Modeling

Helen Hill — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:59:33 +0000

Work by Galen McKinley and Val Bennington at the University of Wisconsin, Madison using MITgcm to model the general circulation of Lake Superior as part of a project to develop a quantitative understanding of the role such bodies of water may play in the terrestrial carbon cycle...

Tidal Mixing Over Rough Topography

Helen Hill — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:33:23 +0000

Work by Maxim Nikurshin and Sonya Legg at GFDL using a 2d version of MITgcm to explore radiation and dissipation of the internal tides generated through tidal mixing over rough topography...

Ocean Ecosystems

Helen Hill — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:00:58 +0000

Work by Fanny Monteiro with Mick Follows and Stephanie Dutkiewicz at MIT who have been using the MITgcm to probe the behaviour of self-assembling phytoplankton communities within a global ocean circulation...

ConGRADulations!

Helen Hill — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:16:08 +0000

Congratulations to MITgcm’s two newest doctoral graduates:Fanny Monteiro and Maxim Nikurashin.

Sea Ice

Helen Hill — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:22:00 +0000

Work by Martin Losch of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany, Jean Michel Campin, Patrick Heimbach, Chris Hill (at MIT) and Dimitris Menemenlis (JPL) extending the reach of the MITgcm in to the Polar oceans, with the development of a dynamic-thermodynamic sea-ice model and its adjoint...