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

MITgcm on Ice

In a recent paper in the Journal of Physical Oceanography, An Nguyen (MIT) and co-authors Ronald Kwok (JPL) and Dimitris Menemenlis (JPL) report on work using MITgcm to better understand the origin and character of  the western arctic, upper halocline.

August 5, 2012 by Helen Hill

MITgcm on the Beach

At this time of the year newspapers and magazines abound with suggestions for things to read on vacation. MITgcm recommends popping copies of the following recent papers in your beach bag, after all, there’s more than one way to study the ocean!

August 3, 2012 by Helen Hill

Ocean Biology Meets Physics

In this video, Mick Follows describes his group’s work using MITgcm and ECCO2 products to better understand the global carbon cycle and plankton populations.

May 18, 2012 by Helen Hill

“Van Gogh” Perpetual Ocean Visualization

March 29, 2012 by Helen Hill

Under the Ice

In a new paper published in the Annals of Glaciology, long-time MITgcm users Patrick Heimbach and Martic Losch investigate the sensitivity of sub-ice-shelf melt rates under the Pine Island Ice Shelf, West Antarctica, to changes in the oceanic state.

March 27, 2012 by Helen Hill

Modeling the Gulf of Aqaba (Gulf of Eilat)

Long-time MITgcm-ers Eli Biton and Hezi Gildor have been using the model to explore the circulation in the Gulf of Aqaba (Gulf of Eilat), a terminal elongated basin that exchanges water with the northern Red Sea

February 16, 2012 by Helen Hill

2011 Research Roundup

To round off the year we have collected a sample of 2011 research articles that involved MITgcm in some way. Take a look…

January 1, 2012 by Helen Hill

Wind Stress and Southern Ocean Meridional Overturning

ACC channel model - Image: R. AbernatheyRyan Abernathey and co-workers have been using idealised MITgcm simulations to explore the dependence of Southern Ocean meridional overturning on wind stress.

December 1, 2011 by Helen Hill