Category: Ocean modeling

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

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.

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.

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