Category: Ocean modeling

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

Students make a splash using MITgcm to model falling water in a lab tank during an NSF funded undergraduate research program last summer.

This month we report work by Alan Condron (UMass) using MITgcm, coupled with geological data, to show that massive icebergs and large volumes of meltwater were periodically transported along the east coast of North America as far south as southern Florida during the last deglaciation

MIT postdoc Roberta Sciascia has been using MITgcm to explore the variations in submarine melt rate of Helheim Glacier induced by glacier and intermediary circulations.

This month we look at new work exploring whether high resolution MITgcm tracer simulations can help “connect the dots” in the sparse sampling problem associated with observing the evolution of released dye in a shallow sea.

Cool off with a study from Ashkenazy, Gildor, Losch and Tziperman who use MITgcm to explore the ocean in models of snowball earth.

In new work published in Nature Communications in July, an international team of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Institute of Marine Sciences of Barcelona, Spain in collaboration with the National Centre for Scientific Research, France have been using MITgcm to study the balance between phytoplankton diversity and productivity.

For anyone who has ever wrestled with vizualising output from MITgcm, Earth from Space, the stunning new documentary from PBS’s NOVA series demands serious respect.

This month we spotlight work by Ryan Abernathey who has been using MITgcm to map surface mixing rates globally.

In a novel approach, MITgcmers Ian Fenty and Patrick Heimbach use optimal state and parameter estimation to improve the sea-ice simulations.