Slip Sliding Away…

alt text goes hereDan Goldberg has been working with longtime MITgcmer Patrick Heimbach, looking at new ways to assimilate observations into glaciological flow models capable of representing fast streaming ice flow.

September 9, 2013 by Helen Hill

Looping the loop in the Gulf of Mexico

alt text goes hereThis month we focus on several recent papers that have used MITgcm and its adjoint to perform state estimates and explore its ocean forecasting capabilities in the Gulf of Mexico.

August 7, 2013 by Helen Hill

MITgcm: Ready for Prime Time

Earth from Space title creditFor 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.

May 14, 2013 by Helen Hill

Mixing it up in the Southern Ocean

alt text goes hereThis month we spotlight work by Ryan Abernathey who has been using MITgcm to map surface mixing rates globally.

March 1, 2013 by Helen Hill

2012 Research Roundup

A sample of 2012 research articles that involved MITgcm in some way. Take a look…

February 1, 2013 by Helen Hill

Where the Med. and Atlantic Meet

alt text goes hereFor our first research story of 2013 we take a look at work by longtime MITgcm user Gianmaria Sannino modeling different aspects of the Mediterranean circulation.

January 7, 2013 by Helen Hill

Sea – Ice Interplay

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

December 6, 2012 by Helen Hill

Forecasting the Weather on Pluto

Angela Zalucha has always had a passion for weather but tantalized by the meteorology of other planetary bodies she uses MITgcm to explore the exotic atmospheres of our neighbours in the solar system and beyond, among them the recently re-defined “plutoid” Pluto.

November 8, 2012 by Helen Hill

Overflowing with Movies

Nuno Serra from the University of Hamburg has used MITgcm in many ocean modeling projects, both from a process-modelling perspective and “realistically”, incorporating forcing from NCEP and ECMWF. He is especially interested in the processes regulating North Atlantic and North Pacific inter-annual to inter-decadal variability. A particular passion is overflows.

October 4, 2012 by Helen Hill

Strange New Worlds

This month we focus on research using MITgcm to model atmospheres on Jupiter-like exoplanets showcasing work by recent University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory graduate, Nikole Lewis.

September 4, 2012 by Helen Hill