Jurassic Currents

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.

November 30, 2015 by Helen Hill

An Eddy – Internal Solitary Wave Tango

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.

October 27, 2015 by Helen Hill

The Trouble With Sea-Ice

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.

September 18, 2015 by Helen Hill

Mercury Rising

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

July 24, 2015 by Helen Hill

Probing Phytoplankton in the Agulhas

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

June 24, 2015 by Helen Hill

Ocean Mixology

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.)

May 30, 2015 by Helen Hill

Red Sea Crossing

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.

April 23, 2015 by Helen Hill

Not Finding Nemo

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

March 23, 2015 by Helen Hill

Falling Water

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

February 17, 2015 by Helen Hill

2014 Research Roundup

It’s cold outside at MITgcm home base: Time for another annual research roundup. Grab a hot beverage and dive in…

January 20, 2015 by Helen Hill