Reporting by Helen Hill for MITgcm
This month, a taste of papers using MITgcm at this year’s Ocean Sciences Meeting.
Co-sponsored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), and The Oceanography Society (TOS), the biennial Ocean Sciences Conference bring together the international oceanography community including many MITgcm users. Below we link to the abstracts from a selection of presentations citing MITgcm. Did we miss yours? If, so, let us know.
- Anne Elizabeth Adelson et al
Transport and mixing of nutrients in the Indonesian Seas
- Hongxing Cui et al
An AI-Assisted Ensemble Analysis and Forecasting System for the Red Sea
- Suhani Dalal & Elizabeth A. Yankovsky
Impact of Wind Variability on Vertical Tracer Transport for Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement
- Garrett Finucane et al
An idealized framework for the regimes and dynamics of ice shelf cavity circulation
- Savitri Galiana et al
Open Science for Coastal Resilience: A Scalable Web-Based Ocean Modelling System
- Sarah Gille et al
DDT Dispersal along the California Coast: The role of ocean currents
- Mark E Inall et al
Glacial Ice Front Calving: IW Generation and Melting
- Yoshihiro Nakayama et al
Development of MITgcm ECCO-downscaled Amundsen-Bellingshausen Sea regional simulation
- Siva Sanikommu et al
A High-Resolution Ensemble Analysis and Forecasting System for the Red Sea
- Marlene Schramm et al
Simulating Surface-Induced Supercooling in Upper Southern Ocean Water Masses
- Junchuan Sun et al
Downscaled climate projections for the Arabian Sea
- Ingo Wagner et al
Eddy Leakiness in Kinematic and Dynamic Models
- Huiling Zheng et al
Decompositing Wave and Eddy from 3D Ocean Currents with Implicit Neural Fields
Other New Publications last month
Blöcker, A et al (2026), Inhomogeneous magnetic coupling in exoplanets: the stop & go of WASP-18 b’s atmospheric flows, arXiv: 2602.18101
Chen, Xi et al (2026), Dispersal and isolation of the scaly-foot snail across abyssal insular habitats and through time, Current Biology, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2026.01.033
Du, J., Tian, J. (2026), Deep convection in the glacial Pacific can hinder oceanic carbon sequestration: An ocean-biogeochemical model study, Sci. China Earth Sci., doi: 10.1007/s11430-025-1815-6
Dunshaw, Brian D. Dushaw et al (2026), Ocean Observing System Design: Transatlantic Acoustic Propagation for Acoustic Thermometry, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-24-0124.1
Feng, Jianjie et al (2026), Drivers and Mechanisms of the 2015–16 Record-high Sea Level and Ocean Heat Content in the Southeast Pacific, Journal of Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-24-0729.1
Gong, Y., Chen, L., Liu, M., Xu, J., Chen, Z., & Cai, S. (2026), Three‐dimensional characteristics and dominant forcing mechanisms of third waves generated by nonlinear near‐inertial wave and internal tide interactions, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2025GL120443
Guo, X., Hu, S. & Yang, Y. (2026), Energy transfers and multiscale interactions between intra-seasonal and low-frequency variability in western boundary currents of the tropical Pacific, Ocean Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s10236-026-01777-9
Gupta, M., Thompson, A. F., & Klein, P. (2026), Energetics of the upper‐ocean under sea ice: Frictional dissipation versus baroclinic production, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, doi: 10.1029/2025JC023026
Hao, M. et al (2026), Sea Surface Elevation Retrieval From Synthetic Aperture Radar During Tropical Cyclones, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, doi: 10.1109/JOE.2026.3655999
Li, Bingtian et al (2026), The response of East China Sea internal tides to ocean warming: intensified while maintaining seasonal contrasts, Ocean Modelling, doi: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2026.102696
Li, C., Dang, H., Du, J., Li, H., Zhang, J., & Jian, Z. (2026), Orbital variability in grazing proportion: New insights from sedimentary amino acid δ15N records of the western equatorial Pacific, AGU Advances, doi: 10.1029/2025AV002024
Li, Zhiyuan (2025), Understanding the Double-ITCZ Bias in Climate Models: From Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions to Future Climate Projections, Yale University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025. 32242374
Liu, Qingxiang et al (2026), Swell propagation through ocean surface currents across the Pacific, Journal of Physical Oceanography, doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-25-0139.1
Ma, J., Guo, D., Zhao, Z., Zheng, Y., Zhan, P., & Hoteit, I. (2026), Internal tide variability in the Arabian Sea simulated by a high‐resolution model with realistic forcing, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, doi: 10.1029/2025JC022751
Marchal, Olivier and Alan Condron (2026), On the Spreading of Glacial Meltwater in the western North Atlantic. Part II: Interactions with the Gulf Stream, Journal of Physical Oceanography, doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-25-0032.1
McClish, Shannon (2026), Resolving Seasonal to Annual Marine Net Community Production Using Biogeochemical Argo Float Observations, University of Hawai’i at Manoa ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025. 32243693
Mehta, Nishil et al (2026), Cloudy solutions for the clear skies of WASP-80b: 3D cloud feedback on the atmosphere and spectra of a warm Jupiter, Astronomy and Astrophysics, doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202557411
Nakajima, R., Nomaki, H., Osafune, S. et al (2026), High surface microplastic abundance at 30°S, 90°W supports eastward extension of the South Pacific garbage patch, Micropl.&Nanopl, doi: 10.1186/s43591-026-00179-4
Nakayama, Y., Hyogo, S., Lin, Y., Park, T., Lee, J., Caillet, J., Mohan, G., Poinelli, M., Dutrieux, P., Nakata, K., Zhang, H., Loose, B., and Kowalski, L.(2026), Development of ECCO-downscaled Amundsen-Bellingshausen Sea regional simulation using MITgcm(66j), EGUsphere [preprint], doi: 10.5194/egusphere-2025-5958
Pochini, E., et al (2026), Basal melting variability of the Ross Ice Shelf from mixing ratios of simulated water masses (1993–2018) and potential climatic drivers, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, doi: 10.1029/2025JC023103
Ponte, R. M., Silva, E. N. S., Wang, O., Fukumori, I., and Zhao, M. (2026), Improving ocean bottom pressure fields using space gravity data in state estimation, EGUsphere [preprint], doi: 10.5194/egusphere-2026-947
Purba, Noir P. et al (2026) Multi-decadal temperature changes and ocean heat content variability in the Southeastern Indian Ocean, All Earth, doi: 10.1080/27669645.2026.2630800
Ran, Junlin et al (2026), Research Progress of Deep Learning in Sea Ice Prediction, Remote Sensing, doi: 10.3390/rs18030419
Reymondet, Lucie et al (2026), Southern Ocean latent heat flux variability driven by oceanic meso- and submesoscale motions, arXiv: 2602.15768
Shi, Yihang et al (2026), Crest extraction of internal solitary waves from synthetic aperture radar images based on an improved segformer model, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, doi: 10.1117/1.JRS.20.014507
Shu, Ruiqi et al (2026), HybridOM: Hybrid Physics-Based and Data-Driven Global Ocean Modeling with Efficient Spatial Downscaling, arXiv: 2602.00598
Sun, Rui et a; (2026), Exploring air–sea interactions in a regional weakly coupled data assimilation system: An observing system experiment for the 2023 Indian Ocean monsoon and Cyclone Biparjoy, ESS Open Archive, doi: 10.22541/essoar.177092633.30537936/v1
Tessier, Jonathan et al (2026), A Zonally-Averaged Model of the Meridional Overturning Circulation, Journal of Physical Oceanography, doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-25-0197.1
Yu, Kai et al (2026), The Seasonality of the Submesoscale SST Variability Over the Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension, JGR Oceans, doi: 10.1029/2025JC023305
Vazquez, Heriberto J. (2026), Passive moving source ocean acoustic tomography with uncertainty quantification using relative arrival times from a ship of opportunity, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., doi: 10.1121/10.0042451
Wang, H., Lin, X., Shi, J. et al. (2026), Decadal decline of the meridional overturning circulation in the eastern subpolar North Atlantic diagnosed from a high-resolution reanalysis dataset, Ocean Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s10236-025-01761-9
Williams, N., Byrne, N., Feltham, D., Van Leeuwen, P. J., Bannister, R., Schroeder, D., Lawrence, I., Nerger, L., Landy, J., and Dawson, G.(2026), A Reanalysis of the Arctic sea ice cover over the satellite era utilising summertime observations of SIT, EGUsphere [preprint], doi: 10.5194/egusphere-2026-742
Williams, R.G., Brown, P.J., Takano, Y. et al (2026), The biogeochemical transport by the Gulf Stream, Commun Earth Environ, doi: 10.1038/s43247-025-03118-y
Yan, Bingzheng et al (2026), A scaling-constrained symbolic intelligence approach for parameterizing submesoscale vertical heat transport, Ocean Modelling, doi: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2026.102717
Zahn, M. J., Fournier, S., Fenty, I. G., Steele, M., Wood, M., & Gaube, P. (2026), Mackenzie River freshwater controls early sea ice formation in the eastern Beaufort Sea, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2025GL118871
Zhang, L., Song, Y., Huang, W. et al. (2026), Interaction between atmospheric rivers and marine heatwaves in the North Pacific, npj Clim Atmos Sci, doi: 10.1038/s41612-026-01350-7
Zhao, Xiaoyu and Yanjiang Lin (2026), SWOT Observations of Bimodal Seasonal Submesoscale Processes in the Kuroshio Large Meander, Remote Sensing, doi: 10.3390/rs18030384
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