Where the River Meets the Sea

A group from Japan has been using MITgcm to explore the spreading of river plumes.

May 9, 2018 by Helen Hill

Understanding the Circulation on Saturn


This month we spotlight work from Canadian researchers Yakov Afanasyev and Yang Zhang who have combined MITgcm direct numerical simulations with physical fluid laboratory experiments in an exploration of what might be creating monster cyclonic vortices at the poles  of Saturn.

April 8, 2018 by Helen Hill

Exploring the Southern Ocean pCO2 Wind Stress Connection

This month we spotlight work from UK researchers led by Ben Bronselaer (formerly of Oxford, now at Princeton) who have been using MITgcm to understand the feedback between mixed-layer partial pressure of carbon dioxide pCO2 and wind stress in the Southern Ocean.

March 8, 2018 by Helen Hill

The Seesawing Indonesian Through Flow


This month we spotlight work from researcher Wlademir Santis (Oceanographic Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Pça. do Oceanográfico, Brazil) and co-authors who have been using MITgcm in work seeking to understand how the Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) might vary under ice age conditions.

February 6, 2018 by Helen Hill

2017 Research Roundup

Happy 2018: Another new year, another research roundup! Best wishes to MITgcmers past, MITgcmers present and MITgcmers yet to come…

January 7, 2018 by Helen Hill

Shaken and Stirred


This month we spotlight research from researchers at MIT have been using MITgcm to model the interplay between vertical convection and lateral exchange due to baroclinic instability.

December 7, 2017 by Helen Hill

How the Ocean Breaths

This month we spotlight research from a Georgia Tech team who have been revisiting early modeling experiments using MITgcm to take a closer look at oxygen uptake during deep convection.

November 7, 2017 by Helen Hill

Modeling Melting Glaciers


This month we spotlight a recent multi-institutional study led by Dustin Carroll that has been using MITgcm to explore what controls circulation in tidewater glacier fjords.

September 7, 2017 by Helen Hill

ECCO Sheds Light on Upper Ocean Variability Around New Zealand.

This month we spotlight research from a team in New Zealand who have been using the MITgcm-based ECCOv4 ocean reanalysis product to examine how air–sea heat flux and ocean heat transport convergence due to ocean dynamics contribute to variability of upper ocean temperatures around New Zealand.

August 7, 2017 by Helen Hill

What you Can Do With a Really Rather Realistic Ocean Model


This month we spotlight research from MIT’s Darwin Project exploring how changes in spatial resolution impact emergent biogeochemistry and phytoplankton community structure in their work using MITgcm and the biogeochemical models they have built to surround it.

July 7, 2017 by Helen Hill