2015 Research Roundup

Another new year, another research roundup! Best wishes to MITgcmers past, MITgcmers present and MITgcmers yet to come…

In a new study, researchers from Scripps have been using MITgcm to evaluate the role form stress across bottom topography plays in balancing the input of stress by wind at the surface.

This month we look at new work by a team of Swiss researchers who have been using MITgcm to explore the ocean circulation associated with the global land distribution during the Jurassic.

This month we spotlight work by a team from the Chinese Academy of Science’s South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou, China, who have been using MITgcm to investigate the interaction of internal solitary waves with mesoscale eddies.

This month we spotlight work by a team from McGill University who have been using MITgcm to model oil spill scenarios around the Arctic Ocean Basin to better understand spill behavior in the presence of sea-ice.

A joint Harvard – MIT study uses MITgcm to explore the biogeochemistry of riverine mercury.

This month we report on researchers using MITgcm to explore the role of Agulhas Rings in plankton transport observations from the Tara Oceans Expedition.

Researchers have been using MITgcm to help understand the role of turbulent mixing in the Antarctic as part of the Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment in the Southern Ocean (DIMES.)

Using MITgcm to investigate the origin of a mid-basin cross-over current in a study of the buoyancy driven circulation in the Red Sea.

Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have been using MITgcm to study larval dispersal in the Red Sea.