Revisiting Extreme Arctic Ice Loss with MITgcm

Using MITgcm, researchers uncover how storm-driven mixing and ice motion combined to trigger exceptional sea ice retreat missed by operational forecasts.

Using a high-resolution MITgcm simulation paired with Lagrangian particle tracking, a new study traces where Irminger Current waters actually go and shows they do not just hug the boundary.

Running a coupled model to equilibrium is easy—until you include ice sheets. BIG-MITgcm tackles that head-on, using a new global-scale ice sheet model and a new coupled framework to let slow components catch up.

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg use ECCO data to provide a new view of ocean stratification.

Idealized MITgcm experiments reveal how monsoonal heating steers the timing of El Niño events.

New insights using the Oceananigans.jl modeling framework.

This month, a taste of papers using MITgcm at this year’s Ocean Sciences Meeting.

​Happy 2026: Another new year, yet another new research roundup! Best wishes as always to MITgcmers past, MITgcmers present and MITgcmers yet to come…

MITgcm sheds light on climate–vegetation–fire feedbacks in the early Triassic.

Researchers use MITgcm to explore the response of Prochlorococcus to changes in the marine environment.