Keeping Things the Same

This month we spotlight work by MIT Darwin Project researchers who have been using MITgcm to explore the role of microzooplankton in regulating near surface organic matter.

February 22, 2016 by Helen Hill

2015 Research Roundup

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

January 15, 2016 by Helen Hill

Wind Blown

In a new study, researchers from Scripps have been using MITgcm to evaluate the role form stress across bottom topography plays in balancing the input of stress by wind at the surface.

December 31, 2015 by Helen Hill

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